Cancelled Medium Don’t Feel Bad Of course, my cancellation of Medium won’t take effect until the annual renewal date. Of course, no one will read this anyway because you can have 1000+ followers and fewer views then when you had <100 subscribers. Sorry I’ll miss some of your writing but I can’t help feeling Medium was taking me for a ride, and I don’t like paying to be used. Have fun. Take care.

My young co-worker OD’d to his death on Friday night. Might have been an accident, but at the very least, he was self-medicating. He wasn't the greatest at the job, but he was such a sweet guy, and I wish his world had been a better one. That got me…

I still think it’s fair to say that most Americans don’t have the stomach to round up Jewish people like it’s 1930s Germany. However, there are a lot of white Christians that want to eliminate the Jewish people. …

A Medium writer said Evangelical Christians were only about 4% racist. Really? He demanded statistics from me. An aside: I used to be polite. My liberal friends at the Dems told me that I had to be because Evangelical Christians had deeply religious beliefs. I was skeptical at the time…

Emma Goldman warned the world that the USSR was neither soviet nor communist (and certainly not socialist), but the world (the rich people who mattered) wanted an anti-capitalist big bad to threaten Western workers. — Emma Goldman was an American immigrant anarchist who engaged in political activity against WWI and was deported for her efforts in 1919 after a stint in prison. She was taken to post-October Russia, and while she wasn't happy to be deported, she was hopeful that she could find meaningful work…

Many, if not most, workers have had their jobs threatened or creativity stolen. It's happening, but the conversation is about the machines taking over. Lost in the conversation are the abused, overworked, and underpaid human beings still doing most of the work behind AI. I didn't coin the phrase Potemkin…

I’m more interested in the writers who don’t get the bump from staff and don’t belong to a publication that will tell them what to and not…

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902. The Great Food Inflation of the 2020s. — In 1902, Jewish women, mostly recent immigrants living in poverty in the Lower East Side of New York City, grew irritated and frightened over an unusual rise in the price per pound of kosher meat. They didn’t sit around complaining about the corporationists and Trumpians of their day — and…