Author: Caleb McKerley
Top 5 Summer Camp Movies
With Memorial Day here and COVID numbers subsiding, I have begun to reminisce about my days at Summer Camp. Summer Camp movies have some pretty well known tropes. The majority […]
Leadership is Dead, Long Live the Memes
You may not have noticed but our society is currently desperate for leadership. Demand has dwarfed the supply. The leadership market has been flooded with fakes, counterfeits, and phonies posing […]
4 Obvious Reasons We are in the Dumbest Timeline
The concept of Parallel Universes, or alternate dimensions and realities, has seeped into popular culture over the past decades. They are colloquially referred to as “bizarro” universes, first referenced in […]
Everyone Hates the New Super League, Here’s Why
On Sunday April 18th, 12 soccer clubs from England, Italy, and Spain announced the formation of a new “Super League.” In the 24 hours since the announcement, the entire Soccer […]
Remote Work Changed Me
The coronavirus pandemic has transformed office work to remote work. Dining tables are now work stations, living rooms transitioned to break rooms, and walking the dog is the new smoke […]
Biden Is A Progressive, Even If The Left Isn’t Happy
I’ve come to eat crow. Joe Biden is a progressive. I didn’t think he would be when I voted against him in last year’s Democratic primary. Many on the Left […]
Grifting the Right: How MAGA Mirrors the KKK
The ability of Trump’s snake-oil coalition to take over the leadership of the Republican party is no surprise. Grifting and right wing politics go hand in hand. Glenn Beck, Dick […]
The New and Somehow Familiar Resident Alien
The SyFy network’s original material doesn’t even qualify as hit or miss. It’s almost always a miss. The new show Resident Alien is trying to break that mold. Like Battlestar […]
MAGA and Qanon are Performance Politics, not Populism
Everything is political. Everything is performance. This has not always been as obvious as it stands with today’s GOP, which operates solely as a performative political body. There is no […]
The Music Industry Is About To Change And That Should Scare You
You may have noticed headlines over the past few weeks of major musicians selling off all or portions of their song catalogues. Bob Dylan, Lindsay Buckingham, Neil Young, Patti Smith, […]