Political Musing
How the Never Trump Brain Trust Built What They're Now Selling You Protection From
The Billionaire Victims Club
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 1. As I drafted this, I was watching SPCX lose $400B in market value. Only about $1.5T more to go to be "right priced" Glorious!
recap
A wrap up of the posts of the week of June 20th, 2026
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
You can't go to the grindhouse anymore. But you can watch everything it showed. Here's where to start.
The Billionaire Victims Club
A group chat, a tax, and the men who'd like you to know they're the real victims here
A quick update and status. Also, appreciation of my audience.
The Long Arc, a journey of political weight
Series: The Closed Loop, Part 2 — Series Capstone - Bringing it all together
Geoff's Musical Musings
Paul Gilbert is one of my icons. I discovered him in the late 1990s, his work with Mr Big was eye opening, and that got me to look into his band Racer X, and from there, I was hooked. I have as much of his recorded music as I can
The Long Arc, a journey of political weight
Series: The Closed Loop, Part 1
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Bill Ackman spent a year positioning himself as the conscience of American academia. Then his wife's dissertation came up. Turns out his standards have a bid-ask spread.
One last post, to document the end of this era, and why it is still relevant. And why I have so much of this physical media in my collection.
The roll up of the week of 6/13/2026's posts
Thirty years of Real American outreach has produced one durable result: a very comfortable living for the people doing the outreach.
JD Vance converted to Catholicism five years into his marriage to a woman who hasn't. Ross Douthat interviewed him about his faith and forgot to notice. Here's what legitimacy laundering looks like.
Series: The Boys Are Not Alright — And Nobody's Fixing It, Part 3
Series: The Boys Are Not Alright — And Nobody's Fixing It, Part 2 - College isn't really for everybody, but somehow that became the mantra.
Trump's Iran deal: photo op in Geneva, enrichment program in Tehran, blame pre-loaded onto Vance. The only thing missing is a Phase 2.
Series: The Boys Are Not Alright — And Nobody's Fixing It, Part 1 - Looking at why the generational demographic shift is a challenge
Bringing it to a close, what are the chances of the tech industry unionizing? It's possible, but it will be more difficult than if it happened in the 80's and 90's
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
