Category Archives: New Post

To impeach, or not to impeach?

Posted on May 23, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

Are we barreling toward the impeachment of a president? Should we be? Impeachment is, as intended in our constitutional charter, the heavy artillery of checks and balances. It’s an unwieldy process by design: a simple majority vote in the House … Continue reading →

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RIP Tim Conway (Dec. 15 1933 – May 14 2019)

Posted on May 14, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

. This one hurts. Tim Conway hailed from my neck of the woods, got his start on local TV, and was a fixture on the comedy and variety shows that anchored TV in the seventies and eighties. He was one … Continue reading →

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RIP Doris Day (April 3 1922 – May 13 2019)

Posted on May 13, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

A genuine legend passed away today. Doris Day died at home in California, aged 97 years, having recently suffered a serious case of pneumonia. Singer, actor, activist—she was not only one of our last veterans of Hollywood’s golden years, she … Continue reading →

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No clean hands: the Bill Barr mess

Posted on May 2, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

One of the most important legal precedents in American political history is the United States v. John N. Mitchell. In the aftermath of Watergate, our 67th Attorney General was charged, tried, and found guilty of perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of … Continue reading →

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Election 2020 – let the handicapping begin

Posted on April 16, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

It’s never too early for electoral predictions, and the 2020 presidential election is just 19 months away. Let’s go on the record with a Deconstruction of political prognostications…. While most are keeping a sharp eye on the bloated slate of … Continue reading →

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C’est une tragédie

Posted on April 15, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

What a heart-wrenching loss for Paris, for France, and for the world.

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Here’s what’s going on

Posted on April 1, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

I said hey. What’s going on?

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The art of eternal employment

Posted on March 31, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

Lifetime guaranteed employment sounds like a concept from an earlier age, or perhaps something that never existed at all. How about eternal, self-perpetuating employment? Economists can argue whether such a thing could ever be possible (economists argue about everything, you … Continue reading →

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When the going gets tough, the snowflakes sue

Posted on March 20, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

It’s really quite impressive how many of us can go around with a copy of the U.S. Constitution in our hip pocket, yet still have no idea what it does and does not say. Case in point: artist and Trump … Continue reading →

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The web at 30

Posted on March 12, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

The World Wide Web is celebrating a birthday today. Actually, on this date in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir Tim, thank you very much) outlined a somewhat vague proposal for a new electronic information-sharing protocol. But seeing as how the … Continue reading →

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AI-generated art as an economic commentary

Posted on March 4, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

Imagine if you will an algorithm, an AI, employed in the creation of chimerical floral forms—all as a dual exegesis on one of the world’s first economic bubbles, and one of its most recent. And if that’s all too heady … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing the art and spectacle of Ivanka Vacuuming

Posted on February 7, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

Performance art can be a challenge to interpret. By its very nature it represents a forfeiture of control—by relocating the creative process from the studio to the stage, and by producing and reproducing iterative art before a mutable audience, the … Continue reading →

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Brazen art theft in Moscow

Posted on January 29, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

We’ll say it again: we in no way condone art theft, but we can’t help giving a little hat-tip to the more ballsy art thieves out there. On Sunday, Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery fell victim to perhaps the most direct, no-nonsense … Continue reading →

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Government shut-down and the slow-motion assault

Posted on January 16, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

As I write this, the ongoing shutdown of the U.S federal government, sparked by a budget impasse over border-wall spending, is in its 26th day. It is the longest government shutdown in history. You can choose your fallout, in terms … Continue reading →

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Brian May’s new space rock

Posted on January 3, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

It’s surely a stellar time (so to speak) to be an alumnus of the legendary arena-rock four-piece Queen. Not that they’ve ever wavered much from their atmospheric fame, the recent (and ongoing) success of the band biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has … Continue reading →

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