Joe, with degrees in engineering and economics, raced motorcycles, founded 3 software companies, and launched one of the first computer store chains. Now he writes novels and Ghost essays while traveling with his wife, Lanying, and their cat, Cat.
Homeland Security The Word They Chose Audio0:00/1185.3786171× In February 2001, seven months before the attacks that would reshape American governance, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote a memo in which he observed: "The word 'homeland' is a strange word. 'Homeland' defense sounds
I try to avoid cursing and for the most part I don't. However, this is different. WHAT THE FUCK! Federal authorities arrested independent journalist Don Lemon in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, accusing him of breaking federal law during a protest of the Trump administration’s immigration policies
Don't abolish it Summary: ICE shouldn't be abolished—it should be rebuilt into something that deserves its authority. But that's not what's happening. Trump is building a federal force loyal to him personally, armed like soldiers, trained minimally, screened for compliance rather
Summary:Trump voters—categorized as 29% MAGA Hardliners, 21% Anti-Woke Conservatives, 30% Mainline Republicans, and 20% Reluctant Right—weren't fooled by PrumpTutin. They understood exactly who he was and voted for him anyway, deliberately. They wanted a weapon, not a president. MAGA believers crave resentment and spectacle above
Share on Facebook Audio0:00/986.5040361× Nothing is wrong enough to stop anything. Sorry I'm late publishing this morning. This one took more time than I anticipated. That is not a feeling. It is the governing condition of this moment. The economy is called “strong,” even as
The Bot Series Eliza’s Children Eliza’s Children AI learns to think for itself. The people who created it learn they should have thought harder first. A programmer’s nightmare wrapped in a story that sees it coming. Buy on Amazon → Connecting the Bots Political thriller where AI meets
Fox News did not break the United States by accident. It did it on purpose, in daylight, for profit, and with extraordinary discipline. What we are living in now—the distrust of science, the contempt for institutions, the reflexive hatred of expertise, the street-corner epistemology where "I heard"
Summary: We keep calling it polarization—red versus blue, left versus right—but that's the wrong diagnosis. The real divide isn't horizontal. It's vertical. Owners and workers. Insured and exposed. Capital and everyone else. For fifty years, policy has moved wealth upward while we
The Icepick in the Back of the West They laughed the first time. That was the mistake. Audio0:00/423.7259641× Share on Facebook When Trump mentioned buying Greenland years ago, polite society chuckled. They treated it like the ramblings of a senile landlord who didn't understand that
Summary: ICE has become Trump's parallel police force—25 dead in custody in 2025, the deadliest year since tracking began. Nearly 579,000 arrested since January 20th. Seventy-four percent never convicted of any crime. They've detained U.S. citizens, ignored federal court orders, and operated with
Vaccines Are Your Choice Summary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may not be evil—just a former heroin addict with a literal brain parasite who believes he's on a hero's quest. The distinction doesn't matter. As HHS Secretary, he controls a quarter of the federal
Bootstrap Country Audio0:00/277.38221× The counties most dedicated to "bootstraps" are the ones living on the federal dime. The red counties—where 25% or more of personal income comes from government transfers—paint a vivid picture of self-reliance: Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, rural Missouri.