The EU freezing Sierra Leone payments is a sad reminder that financial leverage still drives diplomacy.

Iowa’s cancer‑rate spike is turning water quality into an election issue. Erin Brockovich fought this battle. They made a whole hit movie about it. We watched. We vowed to do better.

Kansas sliding into battleground status is the kind of plot twist that makes strategists nervous, but only because they are in denial. Everything is up for grabs because of this administrations non-stop corruption and blunders.

We need a whole new Securities Act of 1933. This time to more explicitly prohibit: artificial inflation of a security or imaginary currency using the office of the President. Jesus.

California’s AG digging into OpenAI hacks shows how cybersecurity has become political theater. Online, in public, in the shower, standing in a field in Patagonia.....assume you data is being harvested and you are being monitored.

"If this is an emergency call......." Fuck that. It gets you scheduled for some ridiculous time in the future when either you already died, or somehow beat cancer with some South American herbal tea. "Dial 1 for the intake team" "Dial 2 to hear some carnival music" "Thank you! Goodbye!"

I am afraid the US President is lacking in complexity. He is too one-dimensional and governed by emotions of resentment, greed and fear. Such qualities make him vulnerable to more disciplined leaders who exploit him.

"Go die in a hole." -new put-down according to high school cousin

Will flies emerge from the child's mouth and blacken the skies?

In history, you find humanity learns some lessons over and over and over again.

And at the turn of the 20th Century, the American people saw the wisdom of antitrust, food and drug regulation, child labor laws, and national park preservation. Let’s go!

A "company man" is exactly this: a victim of corporate spousal abuse.