Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


The Slate Skiing Article

“Epic Fail: How a Corporate Duopoly Ruined Skiing”: http://tinyurl.com/2xxrfkub Skiing hasn’t been this cheap in decades! But that doesn’t stop old-schooler Gordon LaForge trashing the new model in a nostalgic play for days that in fact were much worse. Kinda like MAGA if you think about it (and if you castigate me for mentioning politics, […]

The WaPo Football Article

“THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE SPORT – How race, politics, culture and money are shaping which kids abandon tackle football — and which keep risking its toll.” Free link: https://wapo.st/3GQhcmx (You must at least scan this article, look at the charts, you must.) Do you feel guilty when you watch football? I certainly do, […]

The War

Everybody’s lost interest. It’s fallen down the charts. The audience has moved on. If this were a band, the pause in fighting would be perceived as a career misstep, a loss in momentum, something hard to recover from. You’ve got to agree that Taylor Swift knows how to fight a war. During a pause in […]

The WaPo OnlyFans Article

If you’re only interested in money… I got an e-mail about this last Thursday, when it went live. Before I saw it on the WaPo site. Would I have seen it anyway? Probably. It was never the top story, but it was featured pretty prominently in the app. But no one else contacted me about […]