I’m a 4th generation San Franciscan. I spent my youth wandering. Either alone or with a couple of friends, we would take the bus or the train to someplace then work our way back home, figuring it out as we went along. I routinely walked from one end of the city to the other. I recently tried to follow one of our…

Buttigieg is the most dangerous candidate in the field. He pretends that because he’s gay that means he is liberal. His coffers are bulging with money from Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates, Dorsey, Ellison, Thiel and every big tech and finance interest you’ve ever loathed. He imagines that billionaries are good for the world…

Not a man. Am a furniture restorer and upholsterer.

Not a man. Am a furniture restorer and upholsterer.

That bulked up thing is gross. It’s wildly unnatural. That shape is due to “performance enhancers” and very specific exercises that build bulk, not strength. And afterward the stretched out skin loses elasticity and has stretch marks.

If you have an original 50s piece, it’s probably deteriorating. 50 years is a long time. The canvas and leather of that age were repurposed from other industries; the leather treated with some really dangerous chemicals.

Also originals were very short, low to the ground. Modern versions are for taller people, but not…

Mid-century modern is the style of corporate boardrooms at/as home. After two generations fought for weekends and paid leave, modern work never ends. The home is not separate from workplace, but an extension of it. Sad. Unhealthy. Pitiful.

I see this style everywhere and it’s stark, uncomfortable, and impossible to…

Coincidentally Warren’s slide and Buttigieg’s rise come immediately after Pete meets with Zuckerberg, Thiel, & Trump.

The short sightedness of the Democratic party is on display with these candidates. Klobuchar and Harris and Sanders need to stay in the Senate and consolidate power. Warren will be replaced by a Democrat.

The other guys need to go away because they do not bring either vision or thoughtful evaluation. Especially Booker…

He’d be worse than Biden. At least Biden may have some morals, Buttigieg has none. He says he created a program to keep poor people (mostly black) in their homes when he had them tossed out. Then when creating a commercial, he used stock photos - of Kenyans!- because he had no real ones, no real evidence of a coherent…

Gladwell used the recording without attribution. Unless the speakers authorized his use or surrendered their rights when they did the interview, it’s not legal.

Nope. Copyrighted material cannot be taken for re-use without permission of both the original publisher and, usually, the interviewee.

Obama was always a centrist. When the National Journal rated his senate record as among the most liberal, he argued that he wasn’t a liberal. As POTUS he refused to recognize that the GOP was never going to give an inch, always going on about compromise that was never going to happen. He didn’t scream and yell or…

Real life bookseller here.

No one earns a billion dollars. You steal it. One way or another, you steal it.

Either you rely on low wage workers you call “freelancers,” or you rely on cronies in the financial industry to rate your stock value highly even though you haven’t made a profit, so that you skim from the pension plans and mutual funds…

It wasn’t until 2018 that more than 22% of eligible voters born after 1980 actually voted. In 2018 their numbers doubled to 44% and it almost changed everything.

Buttigieg’s “renewal” scheme penalized poor families in South Bend by placing liens on their homes when they didn’t repair things according to arbitrary rules with money they didn’t have.

Oh dear. Not another one gone. Argh!

Warren’s proposals are no where near what was considered normal taxation for companies and the super-rich under that conservative idol, Ronald Reagan.

Anyone who thinks Buttigieg is a reasonable man, should read this Current Affairs article. It shows Pete for what he is: an amoral man with little capacity for critical thought. He is all corporate. In other words, a younger version of Joe Biden.

Then there’s this article, wherein it’s clear that Buttigieg thinks that…