Posts like this are what make blogs worth reading; it’s too bad we don’t have an equivalent for every industry out there. But for movie making in particular, I think a lot of starry-eyed people out there need to hear your advice and what’s more a lot of would-be book authors need to hear it too. Translated: no one wants to publish your fucking book…

Why Do Americans Panic So Easily?

I’ll tell you why…

Because we have a huge contingent of the population that is constantly sitting in front of a news media feed from their television, smart phone, or other device… and that feed, for the last 15 years, has been reinforcing the…

[Safe Spaces?] Trigger Warnings? I hate to sound like a grumpy middle-age guy who’s about to tell everyone ‘it used to be better when…’

… but to me those making an uproar over the “Trigger Warning” [and especially the Safe Spaces] concept, have created yet another series of data points which suggest the following theory of…

When considering the news criticism, consider the messenger…

…here in the U.S., there is some conflation between television news reporting organizations, and the larger media organizations to which they belong (e.g. MSNBC is an off-shoot of NBC News, is an off-shoot of NBC the network, is an off-shoot of Comcast (God help…

People think NPR is Good?

Help a brother to understand, because I’m not seeing it.

First let me get this out of the way: I am not partisan in any way, shape, or form. I have no love for the Democratic party and less than no love for Republicans. If a person evaluates things honestly…

The Truth about “Free Markets”

The biggest underlying truth is that the so-called free market, is not free at all. It never was.

In the United States especially, it is gamed at the highest levels, not only by Pharmaceutical companies but by banks, telecoms, insurance companies and…

It is pathetic this is the choice before us. Donald Trump has no business running for the mayor of a small town, let alone President of the United States.

The Republican Party and their “party unity fears,” the two-party system in general, the news media and their perpetuating of the circus, and our system of primaries with…

Brave the Brevity

I‘ll be honest: I can’t stand social media and its total dependence on hyper-truncated ideas, discussions, or emotions.

Facebook? You have 782 Friends? No, you don’t — I promise you don’t. Not if your definition of “friend” means anything more than a friendly stranger…

Interesting ideas but much of what we see in the IoT space are solutions in search of problems.

Do I really need or want my alarm system hooked up to my phone? Or my phone to dim light bulbs for me, or change the thermostat? There are of course certain very specific scenarios where this might help a person (a person in a…

Very little about Gawker being dead is terrifying.

Whether a billionaire used his money to file lawsuits that ultimately exposed a POS media organization for what it was (a POS), is more or less immaterial. Why? Because lawsuits ≠ automatic victory. The lawsuit(s) have to have some legitimate merit to them in order to pass…