“United we stand, divided we — um — never mind.” – John Dickinson Ahead of the midterm elections I give you one of my favorite FOX Business columns of all time, a riff on South Park’s season 20 premier that portrayed the 2016 presidential election as being between a “giant[…] Read On
We have no problem turning a blind eye to human rights atrocities, until the spotlight turns on us. Over the past 24 hours all eyes have turned to Washington and Silicon Valley in the wake of the alleged brutal torture and murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The controversial[…] Read On
Since passing Prop 47 in 2014 California has decriminalized a wide variety of “non-serious, nonviolent” offenses involving theft, forgery, fraud and drugs, putting countless would-be felons back on the street. Cue the law of unintended consequences or, as the National Review put it, “What could possibly go wrong?” Surprise, crime[…] Read On
This is Silicon Valley where libertarians are — brace yourself — liberals. How the heck did that happen? Was it something in the water? Too many drugs? Software eating their brains, along with everything else? Let me attempt to unravel this conundrum. Libertarians believe that government should be limited to[…] Read On
I like to think that everything happens for a reason. That no matter how ugly things get — and life sure can get ugly sometimes — we can still learn a thing or two. That, I believe, is where tenacity and wisdom come from. On the other hand, I’m still[…] Read On
If you live on social media, life seems black and white. Nothing could be further from the truth. The world is a complicated place with lots of moving parts. Life does not vary one factor while keeping all others constant. That’s why problem-solving is never easy. That’s especially true with[…] Read On
Video of a weekly all-hands meeting where Google’s top brass candidly discussed, ranted and occasionally cried about the “shocking” and “upsetting” 2016 presidential election results recently leaked. You can watch the whole video in all its gory progressive partisan glory here. Now, I don’t really care who Alphabet (Google’s parent[…] Read On