I thought the tweeter was broken. When I got the Thiels I retired them. The foam had long ago fallen off the scrims, along with the logos, I wondered whether to fix them or to toss them. Then again, they’d probably cost as much to fix as to buy new ones. But when I moved, […]

The problem isn’t so much that these companies are too big, but that they’ve lost control of their platforms. Today the WSJ printed an exhaustive article about the sale of unsafe/fake/substandard merchandise on Amazon. Once again, these tech companies are far ahead of the politicians, who’ve got no idea how they really work. The truth […]

Every day, a new left wing trope. No wonder Republicans are laughing. To progressives, Obama was a disappointment. He was a centrist in an era of tribalism, one could even call it extremism. On his watch, Democrats lost tons of governorships and state legislatures. Sure, he’s a dignified man, sure, he’s an African-American, BUT THAT’S […]

Only Trump has figured this out in the social media age, one with incessant messages, most of which go ignored. Used to be even if you were ultra-famous, you never heard from the hoi-polloi. The average citizen was a nobody who could only vote by consuming or not. Furthermore, there were few offerings, and real […]