The Chaos is the Point
Let’s play a game.You and I are competing. Let’s say we play in a community soccer league. Your team is better than mine. You have stronger, more aggressive players and you beat us bad.Since I can’t...
View ArticleThe Supply Chain is Way More Complex Than You Think It Is and It's Way More...
(Image found at www.newdesignfile.com/...)For most of my career (over 20 years now), I’ve worked for distributors. I spend a significant amount of my time thinking about supply chain — how it works,...
View ArticleKim Davis and the Religious Right's Perpetual Culture War
The basic outline of this drama could have been predicted (and was predicted) months ago - someone objects to same-sex couples marrying; in their business or government position they refuse to issue...
View ArticleThe Purity Culture's Stew of Terror and Misinformation Boils Over
I've been trying to make sense of the antics on display at the Omaha Public School hearing about making changes to their thirty year old sexuality education program.It had the hallmarks of a moral...
View ArticleThe Deviousness Within The Mormon's Church's Recent Policy Change
Last week, the Mormon church announced a change in policy with regard to children being raised by same-sex couples. The basic policy itself sounds anodyne — children of same-sex couples have to wait...
View ArticleIs anyone surprised an anti-abortion Republican is afraid of research into...
To be honest, there are so many gob-smacking details in the story it's difficult to know which deserve the most mockery.Let's start by noting that the Missouri state senator involved is chair of the...
View ArticleWe know how to do what we have to do
We’ve been here before — from 2003 to 2007, George W. Bush was President and Republicans controlled both houses of Congress. We know what to do — organize, protest, VOTE, and work the system from every...
View ArticleApartheid Calculus or Utterly Amoral? North Carolina Republicans Post...
I've been trying to make sense of the power grab by North Carolina Republicans.The basic outline of their power grab is that having lost two key statewide races (governor and state supreme court),...
View ArticleThe Failure of Republican Health Care "Reform" Is a Sign of Bad Things to Come
Despite the fact that it deserved to fail, the failure of the Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA) is a bad thing.The bill was horrible - Obamacare 0.5, a giant "screw you" to anyone not rich,...
View ArticleThe Immediate Liberal Project; Building a New Party System
Donald Trump's minority presidency is a return to form for the Sixth Party system. Every aspect of his presidency is the same in form if not degree with presidents dating back to Richard Nixon. Trump's...
View ArticleAbout that "orchestra" comment . . .
When I was a child, my mother and I watched the film Playing For Time, starring Vanessa Redgrave, based on the autobiographical book by Fania Fenelon The Musicians of Auschwitz. I was 11 at the time...
View ArticleFiring a Pastor, Impeaching This President - same problem, same solution
In 2014/5, I was chair of the church council at my congregation. I had to lead the church through the painful and difficult process of firing our pastor. We also requested a professional review in...
View ArticleThe Chaos is the Point
Let’s play a game.You and I are competing. Let’s say we play in a community soccer league. Your team is better than mine. You have stronger, more aggressive players and you beat us bad.Since I can’t...
View ArticleThe Supply Chain is Way More Complex Than You Think It Is and It's Way More...
(Image found at www.newdesignfile.com/...)For most of my career (over 20 years now), I’ve worked for distributors. I spend a significant amount of my time thinking about supply chain — how it works,...
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