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There has been lots of ink spilled on the evils of identitly politics and how the Democrats have to embrace the color-blind notion of class. Here are a couple of articles that push back on that. Michelle Goldberg, in Slate: The focus of left-of-center politics in the dark years to
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I spent the better part of the evening reading up on the Facebook Graph API and writing a tool that can do my auto-posting for me. Right now it only works with Facebook. It can post images, status updates, and links in their native format. It’s not too smart
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From the Center for Economic and Policy Research: The Senate can [demand transparency] by refusing to confirm any nominations until Trump takes the following steps to promote faith that a Trump presidency will not enrich himself and his family: Releases his tax returns; Releases a detailed and current financial disclosure
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Entrepreneurs to Trump: Don’t take away our Obamacare (Warning: Obnoxious autoplay video on that page.) Before Obamacare, people were tied to their jobs because of a lack of health insurance options on the individual market. Here are five people who were empowered by Obamacare to leave their wage jobs
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The last couple of posts I made went to Facebook as links back to my site. That is not how I meant things to go. I’m not trying to drive traffic to my site. I don’t even have any traffic analytics installed. I just want this to show
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I came across this little bit of wisdom via Hacker News: There’s one trick that everybody who writes sales knows and nobody else seems to know. This trick is so effective that Microsoft Word has it even built in so you can test while you write. … The F-K score.
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I’ve been reading about IndieWeb and the goal of publishing on my own site and syndicating the content out, or POSSE. I’ve had a personal blog for years, but never really posted to it much. Never as much as Facebook. In part, this is an attempt to break
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This is one of my favorite SXSW photos. On the stage is a John Langord band that’s going bananas, but these guys are just working the sound board, so you can go nuts in the audience.
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For some reason, this stood out tonight. No Age, back when Fun Fun Fun was at Waterloo Park. Also: Get off my lawn.
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Mmmm...beer... A wide-angle view of the RealAle plant. You can see the Hans Piis cans over to the left.
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Hans Pils, as far as the eye can see! I happened upon a tour of the RealAle brewery in Blanco a while ago. As thirst-quenching as this looks, it’s palettes of empty cans.