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What the Hell

June 14, 2025, h/t Polly Marshall for sending me this photo while I was home with COVID.

I’ve been extremely reluctant to write anything for months. We are drowning in bullshit. The maelstrom of AI-generated slop on all social media platforms is bad enough. But there’s also so many new independent journalists (no […]

Biden Our Time?

Waiting in line for the vaccine at SF General Hospital, late February 2021.

I was just talking to a friend who said something like, “maybe with Biden it’ll get better,” referring to housing or senior care or food quality or… I can’t remember what it was. But I have heard this sentiment plenty of […]

The China Syndrome

You might wish for more coherent explanations about what is going on these days than we’re getting. Some of my pals are working on it, more or less behind the scenes. My daughter and some of her friends are compiling a new wiki for folks to either catch up on crisis theory, or check in […]