Downward Mobility

As early as the 1600s, studies in electricity were making a mark on mankind.  The industrial revolution spawned profound change.  The advent of radio and TV seized our senses to no end.  But mobility devices are a mad dash to the profound.

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A Woman's Work is Never, Ever, Ever Done.

The "Women's March" was extraordinary in magnitude and volume and camaraderie and collaboration and cooperation and general canon.  Yet, the white woman's march toward a certain conservatism might be the bigger story and the one that needs far more telling. 

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Pledge of Allegiance

Michael Brown is dead. And many other young black men with their hands up. This is the one truth upon which we can all agree without prejudice. Beyond this, they are neither civil rights legacies nor guilty of this or that. They are simply dead.

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Clooney, Clinton, and the Class of Cluelessness

George Clooney recently held two fundraising events for Hillary Clinton, one at a friend's San Francisco home and another at Clooney's Los Angeles home.  Total haul: roughly $15 million.  Donors paid between $33,000 and $353,000 for a shot at sharing a brief moment in time with one career actor and, well, another career actor.  Clinton spoke about her middle class devotion to a clique of 100 devotees worth billions while pounds of spot prawns and beef tenderloin were blissfully devoured.  The middle class wanted to make its own statement, but it was forcibly barricaded blocks away and incapable of affording a ticket on a salary less than the price of admission. 

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