“Against the Middle” By John Garvey There’s a chapel in Kansas Standing on the exact center of the lower forty-eight. It never closes. All are more than welcome To come meet here, in the middle. It’s no secret the middle has been a hard place to get to lately Between red and blue Between servant […]
Microform
Back before I was let go from an asbestos law firm, I made copious use of microform records. I say microform because I make the distinction between rolls of microfilm; the small sheets properly called microfiche; and aperture cards, which are computer punch cards with an embedded celluloid window containing a microform image. Aperture cards […]
Why you shouldn’t hate Tom Brady
Sunday’s Super Bowl will mark the tenth time Tom Brady has played in American football’s biggest game. I understand that people are tired of hearing about Tom Brady. For 20 years now, his name has been on the lips of sports fans, and not too long after his first Super Bowl victory, people who weren’t […]
How Reddit Fight Club Pissed Off Wall Street
“My barber made $28Gs on Robinhood,” my brother’s best friend texted me early Thursday morning. A minute later, I received another ping but this time from my brother. “Reddit took down Wall Street. David versus Goliath,” his text read. I was half asleep and trying to make sense of the various messages and phone calls […]
New Frame Article on Conspiracy Theories
Hard Crackers has reached out to a South African independent social justice publication called New Frame. New Frame describes itself as such: We are dedicated to a pro-poor, pro-working class focus that aims to report faithfully and informatively about the lives and struggles of working class people, the marginalized and unemployed, shack-dwellers and migrants. We have agreed […]
Vaccine Miseries
It all seemed so very hopeful when the cable channels were breathlessly reporting on the initial shipments of the Pfizer vaccine in the middle of December. Remember the reports of the big UPS and FedEx trucks pulling away from the Pfizer manufacturing plant. In the days before, the same channels had reported on the elaborate […]