Welcome to the first installment in our random series of beer reviews, written when the opportunity arises and as the occasion warrants.1
Opportunities like camping, fishing, cycling, hiking, or any form of sight […]

Pull up a seat, it’s time for a chalk talk. We’re down to the Final Four and the Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, 2019 edition, has been… very predictable. In fact, the current leader among all of our […]

We’re in it now, the most wonderful time of the year.1 Our national mania (the fun one). The mayhem of selection Monday. The mastication of mashed potatoes and machinations of mendacious Machiavellian masketmall […]

Not bad, Resistance. Voters have rejected the Trump agenda and the deconstruction of  American democracy seems to have stalled, for now. You might say it hit a wall.1 Now it’s time to pick yourself up, dust […]

Big Tech makes a mountain of money by collecting as much personal data about as many people as possible.
Mainly, this surveillance is used to identify the personal habits of people and sell them as much as […]

Time flies. It’s more than a month since the election, and we’ve had a chance to recover a bit from the national stomach flu otherwise known as the 2018 campaign. It’s time to reflect on what worked and what […]

Camping food can be good.
And after a 12 mile hike, a good meal tastes great!  You don’t have to have a chuckwagon, running water, a turkey fryer, and 3 sherpas hauling the 8-quart cast-iron dutch ovens (and the […]

Fake news is used to misinform, and misinformation is dangerous. It is a threat to the ideals of legitimate government because we hold that legitimate governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the […]

Get the feeling that not everything you’re hearing about the election is quite what it seems?
Good news / bad news.  You’re not crazy; that seed of doubt is on to something. Your finely tuned bullshit detector […]

The only thing we have to fear is acquiescence.
Action must be the reaction to last week’s exhibition of raw contempt for the American people by the gerontocracy, and that action must be the vote. While the […]

Hey, “likely voter,” it’s time to tune in, turn on, and turn out….the vote!1
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the firehose of political news coming out of Washington, but there’s more up for grabs in Novembe […]

For those about to rock the vote, we salute you. But before you visit the polls in November, you have to register to vote.
Luckily for you, tomorrow is Tuesday, September 25th, National Voter Registration […]

Remember the last time you were feeling this giddy about an election?
All the polls pointed to victory and there was talk of a blue shift in the electoral map. Talk turned into money spent and days campaigned in […]

Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of brackets. April is the month when trash talk ends and the cold reality of reversion to the mean takes hold. In the end, the Infallible Brackulator […]

And here we are, after all the sound and fury of the opening rounds, left with some unlikely players, statistically significant of nothing, squaring off against the usual suspects. Despite an upset for the ages,1 […]

Remember, thou art mortal. 
The 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament began on the Ides of March, and by now everyone who put together a bracket based in any way on reality is feeling like they got stabbed in […]

Before the nets come down, the brackets must go up!
And soon: the final play-in games have just ended, and tomorrow the big dance begins. More importantly, I only had until 10:00pm Pacific to put my money where […]

Normally in winter, the world uses waste heat from cryptocurrency mining to heat homes, but soon it will be time to refocus the world’s computing power on something much more productive: producing pool-busting […]

“There’s no putting lipstick on [it].” Republicans are headed for the exits as we close in on the 2018 midterm elections. While it’s a standard tactic to chalk up unpleasant news to some sort of natural cycle, R […]

Wealth has a way of justifying itself. Once someone has a lot of it, it tends to become evidence of its own deservedness.
The flip side must also hold: If you don’t have money, it’s your own fault. You’re […]