Archive for 2021/04


Book Report

“American Dervish”: https://amzn.to/3sNRaYh “Infinite Country”: https://amzn.to/3rS1u0a “American Dervish” is the first novel written by Ayad Akhtar, who wrote one of last year’s absolute best books, “Homeland Elegies.” It’s not as good. When you get into something, you want more of it, you want to go on an excursion into the past, find out everything about […]

Corporations Push Back Against Voting Laws

I guess corporations really are people. Or at least more powerful than people. And government too while we’re at it. This is a sea change. Used to be government told corporations what to do, and people agitated and protested for change. But people have lost their individual power since the advent of the internet and […]

Young Shakespeare

https://spoti.fi/3mjtZ5Y 1 “Don’t Let it Bring You Down” is my third favorite Neil Young song. For a long time my favorite was “Down by the River,” but that was before I owned the debut, which I first heard in the dorm room of a guy I can’t recall who insisted I listen to “Last Trip […]

More Vaccine Passports

I’m not a Trumper or anti-vaxxer, but this is all very suspect to me. I’m not taking their shot and especially not just to go to a concert. They can keep their shots and their concerts if this will be the new requirement, and I’m sure many others feel the same way. The industry will […]