Editors’ note: In July we posted a blog about the growing number of older nomad workers who use their vehicles to find ways to survive in these grim times (https://hardcrackers.com/growing-old-post-recession-america/). We’re now re-posting an article from CNN on a somewhat more unusual approach to solving the problem of too little money when you’re old. We have no position […]
El Royale
It’s another hot Tuesday so I stop at a bar after work. It’s only a few miles from where I grew up but I haven’t been in the place in at least twenty-five years. A George Jones classic blares from the jukebox and I order a Mexican beer and two tacos. The guy sitting to […]
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‘Defend Democracy. Stop the Coup’: Scottish protest against Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament
The United Kingdom’s (UK’s) Brexit quagmire took another tortuous turn on Wednesday (August 28th). Boris Johnson, the newly coronated Prime Minister, gained Royal assent for his plan to suspend the UK parliament for five weeks. This suspension will make it extremely difficult for Members of Parliament (MPs) to prevent the UK from crashing out of […]
Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too
148 years ago this week, on April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the prison in Paris. They brought it to the foot of the statue of Voltaire, where they smashed it into pieces and burned it in a bonfire, to the applause of an […]
Shingles
This morning a continuation of the wonderful weather everyone’s been enjoying the past few weeks; mid-October, early fall, Indian summer. Cool, mid-fifty degree mornings; warm, mid-70s afternoons, balmy breezes (even when it’s windy it feels great), sunny day after idyllic sunny day, the absolute best time of year in this state of extreme weather and […]