Retirement Income in the 21st Century
Social Security is inadequate. Pensions are under attack. What is the solution to adequate retirement income for the modern worker? Dean Baker writes.
Podcasting Shows the Value of an Open Internet
John Bergmayer on how podcasting is one of the enduring success stories of a decentralized Internet.
Sunday Comics
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we know all Sunday Comicses are fake. Daddy only stares into the distance, there’s only so much more that he can take. (Many miles away something crawls from the slime at the bottom of a dark Scottish lake.)
Morality Collapse: Pratidhwani’s Queen
Thoughts on the latest Pratidhwani production from Omar Willey.
Is it Good for You to be Good?
Thomas Culham considers the individual benefits of ethical behavior, and the difference between virtue and exchange.
Emanations, A Corpse
An exquisite corpse sonnet(ish).
Sunday Comics
Time pterodactyls over all the way I see, I notice fractals, clover, honey bee, that’s why I kinda cackle, it be funny, see, haha. I can’t imagine the hood in harmony, I mean, how can I read the Sunday Comics if he don’t read.
The Kuchars at the Lighthouse
Dennis Nyback reminisces about the film universe of George and Mike Kuchar.
Digital Platform Regulation, Part V: We Need to Fix the News Media, Not Just Social Media
Instead of blaming social media for “fake news” one must consider the state of journalism as a whole. Part 5 of Harold Feld’s series on regulating digital platforms.
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