The only antidote to escalation is negotiation — Russia seems to be rolling nukes into Belarus, and NATO is officially going apeshit. Another name for this is “escalation.” The antidote is “negotiation.” For two months I’ve been ranting about our Ukraine strategy: high risk with low return. Does any sane person think an unbridled proxy war between nuke…

Real, long-term power rests in the judiciary — a newsflash to progressives — Periods of Great Unfriendings on social media are like economic recessions — periodically necessary to let out some steam and regain equilibrium. Especially nasty purges happened around the 2016 and 2020 elections, when dozens of my progressive liberal pals — many known since childhood — had to go. Worse than…

Our post-Roe reality demands a new form of protest and activism — The drags of Stonewall were superheroes 53 years ago, when zero gay rights required over-the-top action in a manner only pissed off queens had the balls to deliver. Since then an increasingly sympathetic electorate spurred left-leaning courts to rule in favor of equality, protections, and ultimately the right to gay…

How I learned that adulthood is impossible without the acceptance of childhood — Remembering my father today, Laszlo, a Hungarian Jew from Budapest born into a shitstorm of history. He spent his teen years surviving Nazis, his 20s supporting his mother and brother in Venezuela, his 30s building a successful company and courting my mother, his 40s starting it all over again in…

A looming recession doesn’t bode well for bitcoin — Crypto is appealing and grows when investors are confident their traditional investments — grounded in actual companies, countries, commodities, real estate, energy, and resourses — are relatively stabile and ideally growing in tandem. But within the throes of a bear market, crypto’s virtual worthlessness heightens the uncertainty of throwing billions…

Smaller countries have no security guarantees unless they nuke up or join a nuked-up alliance, putting us all at risk — Here’s why, despite the sound rationale and advantages provided by our billions of dolllars in arms and intelligence aid to Ukraine, the War will nonetheless be “won” by Russia: Dual Propaganda The Ukrainians have been riding the momentum of the early Russian defeats to help exaggerate their wins and their enemy’s…

The country is barreling toward extremism — Which is worse? a) Authoritarian Trumpista fascisti who are willing and eager to destroy democracy, justified by hating libtards and fueled by fear of a Black Planet, or b) Progressive Liberal intelligensia who are deluded into cannibalizing their own, justified by infantile idealism and fueled by smug self-righteousness End of…

The work from home debate is but a distraction on our inexorable journey into the matrix — Big companies from BofA to Tesla are forcing employees back to their offices, and most staffers are pissed. From my own experience leading projects, creating content, and pitching new business, virtual work quality is at least on par. I will add, again from my personal POV, that virtual work is…