Tag: politics

  • Requiem for a Meme

    Tik­Tok was a balm dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. What began as a sil­ly app for dances became the great­est visu­al sto­ry­telling mech­a­nism since Face­book first tried piv­ot­ing to video. Unlike Snap, Tik­Tok was wild­ly intu­itive, a new video just a quick swipe up and away. The algo­rithm was smarter and the con­tent bet­ter than any­where else…

  • Rally to Restore Sanity

    Feel like this sums up the day pret­ty well, but hear­ing Yusuf, Ozzy and the O’Jays pret­ty much blew my mind. Pol­i­tics, schmol­i­tics. This served as a friend­ly reminder that we have a lot more in com­mon with strangers than we think.

  • A Word on Urban Redevelopment

    It’s not a social good in and of itself.  I also won­der if folks who are all devel­op­ment uber alles still con­cern them­selves with things like “sus­tain­abil­i­ty,” which seems to be a watch­word among the gen­tri­fy­ing classes. The knee-jerk reac­tion to build things like music venues in blight­ed areas is tan­ta­mount to “drill, baby, drill.”…

  • An Open Letter to Mayor Michael Nutter

    Dear May­or Nutter, I vot­ed for you because I thought you best rep­re­sent­ed what the City need­ed. I had my doubts, but thought that you’d be the best man for the job. I felt sure of it when I shook your hand after your vic­to­ry at City Hall sta­tion on my way to work. A year…

  • Joan Didion on Obama

    Maybe you weren’t with me when I linked to Adolph Reed Jr.‘s now infa­mous “Oba­ma No” piece from the pro­gres­sive, but you might find Joan Did­ion’s sober thoughts on the Oba­ma pres­i­den­cy more palat­able. From her essay in the New York Review of Books: No one ever sug­gest­ed that the can­di­date him­self was drink­ing the…