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.
as are we Jun 20, 2025 The Founders Built Impenetrable Firewalls. They Didn’t Plan for Bulldozers. The Founders weren’t naïve. They knew the danger of charismatic strongmen and a fervent bloc of populist voters—and they designed a system to resist them. Deliberately slow, jammed with friction, and
I don't mean to bury you in emails. I know this is my second one today, and I get it—nobody needs more noise in their inbox. But we're living through something here. Something that doesn't wait for publishing schedules or polite timing. We&
bad? Jun 16, 2025 It’s funny how fast the conversation changes when you use the word socialism. Mention it at a dinner with Republican friends and watch the air get stiff. Eyebrows rise. Forks pause. Suddenly, you’re a threat to the Republic because you dared to suggest that
TrumpPardonstheUnpardonable0:00/245.615171× Cold Open Trump didn’t just pardon criminals—he put justice on the auction block. January 20, 2025, was proof: if you were loyal, useful, or rich enough to buy a seat at his table, your record was wiped clean. No contrition, no justice—just the
Dead Economist, Live Ammo: Milton Friedman’s Ideas Are Still Killing Us Eighteen years dead, Milton Friedman still signs the checks. Every tax cut, every gutted regulation, every excuse for inequality has his fingerprints on it. His ideas are still killing us. The University of Chicago economist didn’t predict
Listen0:00/602.1016551× They're not unhappy. They're ecstatic. They won. They elected a man who shits in a golden toilet to fight for the working class. If that's not dark comedy, I don't know what is. I'm in a
Trump’s return to office isn’t politics as usual—it’s something colder, faster, and far more dangerous. What we’re watching isn’t just policy change. It’s a controlled demolition of the American state, carried out with a grin and a bulldozer. The civil service is the
76 years of losing to Israel, banned dog-walking at home, and a state that fears happiness more than war. I’ve spent a long time trying to discover what they want—and still haven’t found anything that makes sense to me or my cat. Not the people. The people
Jun 27, 2025 It’s Hard Not to Write About PrumpTutin I’ve tried. God knows I’ve tried. I sit down to write about anything else—climate collapse, AI, the price of eggs—and there he is again. Not relevant. Not interesting. Just there. Like mold on bread, you
The last decade has been a long, ugly experiment in trying to understand trumpers. The best I’ve come up with is this: they believe reality is a zero-sum game. And they live in the most extreme version of something older and more dangerous. Groups of people whose entire goal
The Cruel Cost of American Healthcare — And the Horror of PrumpTutin’s Vision We already know the numbers—and they’re obscene. In 2023, the United States spent $4.9 trillion on healthcare. That’s about $14,570 for every man, woman, and child, devouring 17.6% of our GDP.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a doctor. He’s a lawyer. And not the kind who reads medical journals. He’s the kind who sues vaccine makers, rewatches Plandemic, and calls it research. He has no public health credentials. No clinical experience. But—he did stay at a Holiday