The Doors could never replace Jim Morrison and Apple can’t replace Steve Jobs. They teach us to get along, tell us institutions are king, but the truth is America succeeds because it’s the land of rugged individuals with a vision who need to do it their way. That’s one of the reasons the music business […]

Kim Kardashian is the biggest star of the twenty first century. Because she told us so. Because she and her family realized the way you win today is by being the story, day after day, month after month, year after year. The hip-hoppers know this, it’s why Drake releases a steady stream of product. He’s […]

I went to hear “Look At Miss Ohio.” But I heard so much more. When I was in elementary school we sang. We’d open up books of songs that I still remember to this day and then sing in unison, loudly. That self-conscious want to fit in ethos of the millennial? We didn’t have it. […]

He lived the American Dream. You know, wherein your wits, smarts and pluck, never mind the gleam in your eye, take you from nothing to everything, in this case not only accumulating riches, but influencing the culture. And there were those who hated him for it. They lionize Steve Jobs. And Mark Zuckerberg. The techies […]