“Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” When the then-former governor Ronald Reagan casually dropped this well-versed line on Johnny Carson, it set the stage for 50 years of growing vilification of public service. Now, this legacy culminates in everyone’s favorite immigrant indiscriminately firing half the federal government as millions… Continue reading Public Service: From Reagan to Musk

Before becoming the world’s most hated oligarch, Elon Musk was at the cutting edge of some very civic-minded technologies: renewable energy storage to combat climate change, launching 7,000 satellites to bring the information age to developing countries, building mind/machine interfaces so people can parse vastly more of that information. He even said, shortly before he… Continue reading (Not) Preparing for an Unemployment Apocalypse

03.02.25 Just got done hearing the talking heads blathering on about how the nation’s moral compass has been reset. Really? Since WWII, the US has been guilty of a half-century string of government meddling in commercial and political interests abroad which has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands. One hundred years before that, half… Continue reading A Moral Reset or Business as Usual