Matt Taibbi is a great journalist. Aaron Mate’ and Max Blumenthal are top notch. Michael Moore is good. But a short little gay guy is The Man. His name is Glenn Greenwald and he’s whip smart and almost always just Right, politically and morally.
As proof I give you his last two shows at the time of this writing.
GG doesn’t just drill Bernie for his failings and cowardice. He looks at the whole system that drilled Bernie first, shows how it works exactly the same in Great Britain, and then lets a talented young black woman explain why everything they say about voting third party is bullshit–among other deeply interesting takes.
This one is about the deliberate Unfreeing of the Internet to reinforce existing power structures. Really thrilling stuff, I’m sure you’re thinking. I thought it too. I was wrong. It is, and it matters way more than who you choose to waste your vote on.
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Thus ends August. It was not a good month for me. I barely walked and I barely filmed and I didn’t edit and I just managed to barely hang on to my sanity most days. Retreating into a pattern of being here and spilling every day again helped, but only a little.
After today that pattern breaks.
On Friday morning I have a road trip of sorts, up north to the place where the Rockies meet the Great High Plains. It won’t be a pleasure trip. It will, though, upon my return, buy me some big wide open space for a time.
Space with which I will craft another good month, like June, the gods willing. A credible start to the fall and the year.
If I’m not posting every day here, it’s probably a good sign.
So don’t fret for me.
At least not because of that, okay? (And yes, I can see my stats here, and I know that I’m talking pretty much just to the wind, but that too is okay.)
See you on the other side.