Apparently, the notion that car insurance is a scam has been making the rounds on the Internet. Folks, I was born for this moment in history, because as friends and frequent readers will know, I have been arguing that all…
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An Open Letter to Single-Issue Voters
Single-issue voters for stopping the genocide in Gaza should vote for Kamala Harris. Counter-Argument #1: “Harris and Trump are the same on this issue” Answer:Harris called for a ceasefire before any other Democratic leader. She talks about the need to…
A Jump-Ball with Hitler
Throughout a lot of my political life, I have flirted with accelerationism. The idea that we can make the most progress in American society by allowing conditions to devolve enough that popular will demands radical change. The problem of course,…
An Open Letter to Democrats
It may be hard to remember or even believe at this point, but Biden never trailed Trump in 2020 aggregate polling. The closest that race ever got was on April 12, just after Bernie dropped out, when Biden led by…
The Murder Game
In one of our last political discussions, my father was trying to persuade me that Putin was miscast as the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. He had a penchant for contrarianism, especially when it comes to trusting the American perspective…
Mailing it in
Yesterday, I sent some mail that was long overdue. How overdue was it? One of the two envelopes I mailed contained correspondence I had first attempted to fax in early May. The documentation in question was an authorization for me…
5/24/22
It is not lost on me that the day my family committed, on paper, to live in America until 2052, 19 children were gunned down in their elementary school. That is what 5/24/22, a date we wrote over and over,…
2022’s COVID Capitulation: The Crisis of Individual Response to Collective Problems
The US has given up trying to fight COVID. Buoyed by the still somewhat speculative notion that the Omicron variant is so weak as to pose a substantially reduced threat, exhausted by nearly two years of half-hearted and poorly-implemented attempts…
Coronavirus and the Limits of Utilitarianism
The public debate around American society’s response to the novel coronavirus is beginning to reach an incomprehensible crescendo. As the number of cases in the US spikes to record-highs and daily deaths begin to creep back up toward levels not…
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…