By Sunny Dell It started with a handshake snub. It ended on a tear. Some have compared the antics of Tuesday’s State of the Union address to a playground fight between 10-year-olds. Fair enough, sort of. There’s some room for argument that we need at least one adult left in

By Ian Firstenberg  In a rare moment of political honesty, Michael Bloomberg’s book reveals how deeply full of shit he really is.  Michael Bloomberg’s thinks we are big dumb suckers. For him, we are whiney hogs who must be kept at bay and firmly scolded into submission; not listened to

by Kate Brunotts The Weinstein criminal trial is in full swing, and ol’ Harvey is struggling to find sympathy amongst his countless sexual assault and rape allegations with a grand total of around 100 separate claims.  The decrepit movie mogul has been ambling to and from trial with a new-fangled

By Sunny Dell Let’s first acknowledge every current candidate running in the Democratic presidential primary is faulty is some way or another. They’re all plagued with mistakes and missteps, old and new. Their characters, demeanors and perspectives are either too archaic, too naive or too bombastic.  They make promises that

by Terence James It says a great deal that Facebook, pressured from all angles to add a dislike function to status updates, instead installed a range of reactions which includes Wow, Angry and Upset. On one hand, it’s a move that plays into the hands of corporate interests like Cambridge

By Ian Firstenberg  Sanders offers the only jolt to our collective body politic that will save us from extinction.  The Bay Area has served as a petri dish for technocratic liberalism over the past two decades. What started with a tech buzz eventually became a bubble that burst a few

by Xan Holbrook When Werner Herzog said that Los Angeles had the most substance out of any city on Earth, he talked of the mass of contradictions that comes in a city which “manufactures dreams.” This sentiment, grand as it already is, hints at a larger truth (or series of