Pulling Hen’s Teeth

I called my dental insurance today and officially designated my chosen dental provider as my dental provider. It wasn’t a big thing, but it was a thing I needed to do and I did it today. The need arose because…

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Unemployment Revisited: Real Unemployment Over 20%

It’s been a while. With the cascading rush of the Trump years toward an alleged full employment in the wake of the 2016 election seeming to reflect a widespread acknowledgment that officially reported unemployment was failing to capture the full…

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Going Viral

I took a walk two days ago, just around the neighborhood and down to the river. I’ve been trying to walk most days, keeping my distance, keeping our distance, six feet apart, the distance between people at their demise. I…

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Drunk Monkeys Publishes “The Revolution Game”

Today, independent online journal Drunk Monkeys published Storey’s political essay “The Revolution Game.” This essay ponders the question of why American Millennials haven’t rebelled against their society and instead seem to be laboring within a system that continually fails them.…

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M_A

I have long joked that I’m the least educated person I know. It’s not true, of course – I’ve spent most of the last decade working with college students who, by definition, have less education. And there are a few…

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The Health of a Nation

Last night, I had a dream that I was in an airplane and it was landing and I kept looking up front at the cockpit and wanting to see outside but it was blocked, just this blue door and white…

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The Case Against Free Trade

I spend a lot of time arguing on Facebook. It comes and goes as a use of time. It’s often frustrating, but in the best moments, it feels like there’s a real opportunity to change someone’s mind. Facebook has become…

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The Singularity is Already Here

The Singularity is already here. It’s corporations, not computers. You’ve probably heard of the Singularity. It’s a hypothetical future event, dystopian in nature, wherein the need for human intervention in human affairs is swept aside by super-intelligent computers who self-teach,…

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We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Look at that headline. Look at it! I know I was excited in my 6,000 word election recap to observe that the problems with our reported unemployment figure and its relationship to labor force participation data had become a mainstream…

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