Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


What’s Cool

“The Book That Explains Our Cultural Stagnation”: https://nyti.ms/3AEj5z2 This book is not coming out until next Tuesday, but I can’t get Michelle Goldberg’s opinion piece out of my head. For the record, the book is entitled: “Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change”: https://amzn.to/3Q6g0NQ Do […]

Hope

Today I’m feeling optimistic, and I haven’t had that spirt here for a very long time. Let’s start with France banning private jets: “As France Swelters, Private Jets Come Under Attack – Politicians are proposing regulating or banning flights by such planes after a summer of extreme heat and soaring energy prices prompted growing calls […]

Pandemic Changes

In March 2021, I got $500 from the bank. I still have $300. And I’m kind of uptight, because it’s all in C-notes, which are traditionally hard to break. But I never need to, because I can pay with my credit card or Apple Pay EVERYWHERE! I predicted back in 2014 that Apple Pay was […]

LIV Golf

This is what happens when money supersedes morality, when money supersedes ethics, when money supersedes EVERYTHING! This is not a golf story, this is the story of society, of everybody. When are we going to say no to the almighty dollar, when are we going to guard the integrity of our organizations. When are we […]