Back in the early 2000s, somebody somewhere decided they were going to sell their soul on an online forum. It was one of those strange internet stories that sticks in your head because it sounds ridiculous at first. Selling your soul? Who would do that? Then you get older, look around at real life, and…
Read MoreI saw something in downtown Amherst that should at least make people stop and ask some questions: red shirts, hammer-and-sickle imagery, Karl Marx on a banner, and people asking passersby, “Are you a communist?” This isn’t somebody doing an edgy college bit. The Revolutionary Communists of America openly describes itself as a revolutionary communist organization…
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Watch the full Breakfast Talk on Rumble: Today’s Breakfast Talk shows the actual process of developing Five Days with G: The Wrong Game, a fictional story that has been forming in my head for nearly thirty years. During the livestream, I work through the opening sequence, character introductions, story beats, time jumps, and the practical question…
Read MoreThere are moments when the past does not come back as a clean file, a certificate, or some perfectly archived record sitting there waiting for you. Sometimes it comes back as a newspaper clipping in a package of old pictures. That is what happened here. My sister Melinda found this clipping in a package of…
Read MoreI have been making this statement since I first learned that Massachusetts rideshare sick time was capped at 40 hours. This was not something I started complaining about only after a delayed payout. I noticed it when I was looking at my sick-time balance, hoping to accrue more hours, and saw no movement. I kept…
Read MoreReality TV has always had a built-in expiration date. Not because people stop liking drama. People will always like drama. That is not the problem. The problem is that reality TV sells the audience a very specific illusion: that they are watching something real, raw, honest, and unfiltered. But the more popular one of these…
Read MoreThis was the second video that I produced for the channel. In it, I discussed the importance of drivers protecting themselves by using body cameras, understanding platform policies, and recognizing that many of the problems we see are often the result of inadequate training and poor communication. At the time, I was already repeating a…
Read Morehttps://rumble.com/v7bsz2i-breakfast-talk-morning-show-at-the-gig-mans-life.html Some mornings start with coffee. Some mornings start with a walk. Some mornings start with a local restaurant apparently operating a public-facing door like the public is supposed to read minds. And some mornings start with me watching the AI scroll and thinking, “Stop answering. Stop answering. I am going to fry one of…
Read MoreOne of the things that always stuck with me was watching The Frugal Gourmet on PBS. A lot of people would watch the show and completely miss the lesson. They’d look at the meal he was preparing and say: “I can’t afford that.” “This isn’t frugal.” “Look at all those ingredients.” What they were looking…
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