Colin Kaepernick’s jersey is the bestselling one in the NFL, even though the league has blacklisted him for protesting police brutality, and wearing his jersey elicits hostile reactions from right-wing football fans. Soon this is how we’ll express ourselves politically, not by protests or letters to the editor, but via our licensed sports merchandise.
How can we separate the brilliant auteur from his disgusting sexual history as a predator? If only there were a warning label.
Elon Musk of Tesla says self-driving cars will be safer in the aggregate. But most people don’t trust the same tech companies that screw up routine updates to smartphones and expose them to ransomware with their lives.
We used to build things: infrastructure, government programs. No more. In the Age of Trump, we’re all about watching Mr. Destructo destroy anything and everything. All we can do is watch, and try to find pleasure in what we hope turns out to become creative destruction.
Hollywood production mogul Harvey Weinstein was fired from his own company after being accused by numerous alleged victims of sexual harassment over the years. Now there are rape allegations as well. The media and online pile-on makes some people uncomfortable, and the bigger issue is the power dynamic inherent to capitalism and the treatment of employees like property by employers, but this is one of those issues where it shouldn’t be hard to find the right side.
Only 54% of Americans know that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. Maybe that’s why President Donald Trump is getting away with not sending enough assistance in the wake of two devastating hurricanes.
After mass shootings, many people point to easy access to guns as the cause of the problem. Others look at America’s culture of violence. How, they ask, can we put an end to that culture that glorifies violence? There’s almost certainly no way since it’s baked in on the left as well as the right.
Some men are reacting to the “women in tech” movement by complaining that a “feminist cabal” is trying to subjugate men.
Another mass shooting, this one in Las Vegas at a country music festival. As usual, liberals want to discuss gun control and conservatives say this is no time to talk about it. But half the equation is the mental state of the shooter. If you can’t ban guns because of the Constitution, how about banning mental illness? That could be hard too.
Some coaches and teams are telling sports players that they must stand during the singing of the National Anthem during sporting events or risk getting fired and blackballed, as happened to NFL player Colin Kaepernick.
