Organized Capital vs. Organized Labor
2016-04-26 – Have you ever given any thought to why the right for workers to organize a union is controversial but the right of investors to form a corporation is […]
Tag Archives: Culture
Right Without Left Is Like a Magnetic Monopole
2016-04-24 – Yin and yang. People like to talk about how opposite forces are actually complementary to another . . . but not in politics. The noisiest of us like […]
Tubman on the Twenty—Not In Time for Passover
2016-04-21 – Apparently Harriet Tubman will be on the twenty instead of Andrew Jackson. I like that. If I had one of those Tubman twenties today, I’d give it at […]
Finger Picking
My “career” as a guitarist is notable by the fact that I’ve had very few lessons. If you listen to me play, you might say that it shows. I can […]
Zero Tolerance
2016-04-05 – C’mon Chicago. We just got a nominee for police superintendent in Eddie Johnson. He seemed like a decent pick. And today we learn that Eddie’s fiancé is under […]
Fixing the Chicago Police
2016-04-03 – I’m probably not the most objective person about police. I’ve never been arrested or hurt by a cop, but the many encounters I’ve had have been pretty distasteful. […]
What About Women?
2016-03-31 – Tuesday I wrote about how ignoring inconvenient people can really backfire. I wrote about Israelis who ignored the Palestinians. I wrote about Americans ignoring African Americans, Native Americans, […]
Making Invisible Enemies Visible
2016-03-29 – Some folks in Zionist circles talk about the Palestinian people being a made-up nationality. These people see Israel as occupying a tiny sliver of the Middle East that […]
Keep Your Eyes and Your Hands to Yourself
2016-03-27 – When I was 14, I had an erection in the boys’ shower at a summer camp I attended. This became a topic of derision and I spent the […]
Should Computer Coding Count as a Foreign Language in School?
2016-03-24 – School systems around the country are debating whether computer coding classes should count toward a kid’s foreign language requirement in school. Considering what an awful job American schools […]
