Set Adrift …

But for however briefly, PM Dawn was cosmic rays, man. Don’t front–if you’ve read this far you know that song was the jam in ’91-’92. It was catchy and infectious.

Real Hip-Hop Never Dies

Ready to Die has always been in my present, the only one of them that speaks to me now exactly as it did then.

Periods Always Matter (Notes On Ideology And Language)

People who can’t get that periods can be used in different ways in different contexts are as annoying as young people who say “I don’t know what that is” when a person or event outside their immediate experience is mentioned, as if that kind of ignorance could (and should) actually be a virtue.

Playing For Empty Chairs (Notes On Trump Puppets, or “Trumpets”)

With so many traditional Republican voices taken down a notch or two because they could neither “evolve” towards Trumpism, nor make forceful and compelling arguments against it, Trump loyalists and surrogates like McEnany and Hughes are not only positioning themselves as chief cheerleaders should their candidate win, but also in the front row of Hillary haters should he lose.

Oil Age Wasteland

The decline of fossil-fuel based (post)industrial economy is a much more likely threat to complex society than the nuclear war that rapidly simplifies Mad Max’s world.

Bangkok: The 22nd Century Los Angeles

An American Bangkok is essentially impossible now, as we’ve demystified the American City, as such. Every American city (even New Orleans) is essentially and thoroughly a neoliberal city now, where “government is run like a business.”

Where Are Traditional Democrats? (Neoliberal Hillary, Socialist Bernie, and The Fuzzy Middle)

Hillary pulling The Democrat Party rightward and Bernie pulling it leftward make it hard to know what a traditional Democrat or liberal looks like anymore.

Not Your Grandfather’s McCarthy (Notes On: “Trump: McCarthy 2.0”)

Situating Trump and his supporters (who’s listening is so much more important than who’s talking) in this larger context, our time looks more like 1930s Europe than 1950s America.

Muhammad Ali

He was the greatest at what he did, and he stood up for what he believed in. Too many heroes are dying this year.