Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Grindhouse meets foreign production, and the imports were born. I remember my father taking me to see the karate/samurai movies at Camera One in San Jose. Good times.
I was a day last last week on this, but this week, I was deathly ill from the Summer cold I brought back from Las Vegas. That shit sucks. Anyhow, you know the drill, if you prefer to not get the daily(ish) post in your inbox and want a
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How Obama turned a movement into a monument, and left the Democratic Party to pay the tab
TFG
In 2010, his first wife published everything you needed to know about Elon Musk in Marie Claire. The world decided the Roadster was too cool to care. We've been paying for that choice ever since.
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The audience became the editorial board. And the editorial board only votes for more.
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Series: The Long Arc — American Democracy's Recurring Failure, Part 4
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Series: The Long Arc — American Democracy's Recurring Failure, Part 3
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How the Democratic Consultant Class Ran the Party Into a Wall and Billed Them for It
Too smart to organize, now it's too late
In the 4th installment, we look at the CS/STEM to tech pipeline, but also the fact that not all roles were equal. Puncturing the mythos.
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The wrap up from May 30, thru June 6, 2026. Get the posts in a diary!
A branch of the glorious garbage that I am not so much a fan of, but you can't deny that it is influential. The Gore Merchants really pushed the boundaries of propriety
Series: The Long Arc — American Democracy's Recurring Failure, Part 2
Longwell and Miller crossed the marriage equality finish line. Now they counsel patience to those still running. Meanwhile, Republican support for marriage equality has collapsed 18 points. The process they're selling is already running in reverse.
I fear that the Left (and the Never Trumpets) are selling their souls on the cheap with their Platner defenses...
Series: The Long Arc — American Democracy's Recurring Failure, Part 1; Beginning a deep dive on the history and the modern parallels
The people who claim to be saving democracy have made a very comfortable living not quite doing that.
Part 3 - we get into the factors employed by employers to turn the staff into a Hunger Games fight for survival that doesn't feel unnatural
The clean sheet doesn't exist. The tab is coming due. And the people who ran up the bill are very busy pretending they didn't.
I am going to admit that I missed this genre. Oh, I heard about it, but it wasn't my jam. Now, I am totally diggin' it.
Another busy week at Sweaty's Corner. Reminder: If you prefer to read the recap on Saturdays, you can turn off the email to the main newsletter (Sweaty's Corner) by clicking through to the web, logging in (if you need to) and then click on the Account
Murdoch funded a network. The Kochs funded infrastructure. Musk owns the pipes. That's not a difference of degree — it's a difference in kind, and the left has no answer for it.
