Selected June Posts From Politix

  Why Does Alec Baldwin Get a Pass but Not Paula Deen? Bloomberg: Not ENOUGH Minorities are Stopped and Frisked Unattractive Workers Report More Bullying on the Job Mayors Group: Make Soda Unavailable for Food Stamp Users Is Libertarianism the Only Truly New Political Idea in 2,000 Years? ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ More Prone to […]

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I Was a Free Range Kid

That’s the title of a piece for Thought Catalog I wrote up. It starts off personal, then explores the “free range kid” vs. “helicopter kid” – as in the kids of helicopter parents – idea: As mostly an 80s kid, not a 90s kid, I was an authentic free range kid. I was a paperboy, […]

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Little in the Millennial Middle

That’s the title of a piece for Thought Catalog I’m only now posting here, nearly 3 months after it went up. It’s about the shrinking economic outlook for Millenials who aspire to be middle class. Opening salvo: According to a new survey by the vaunted Pew Research Center, Americans have ratcheted downward their expectation of the good […]

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New Gig At Topix

I’m all over Twitter lately, using it much more now due to a gig with the somewhat notorious Topix. It’s a news discussion site with a very laissez-faire  attitude toward commenters, for good or ill. (I say good.) We’ve launched a new site called Politix that’s currently primed for mobile users, but a desktop site is soon to roll […]

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