The Post-Partisan Emporium

Should You Move While You Can, Or When You Must? Charles Hugh Smith This gives an extreme advantage to those few who move first, long before they must. The financial advantage for first movers is equally extreme. Moving is a difficult decision, so we hesitate. But when the window to do so closes, it's too late.  We always think we have all the time in the world to ponder, calculate and explore, and then things change and the options we once had are gone for good. Moving to a new locale is difficult for those of us who are well-established in the place we call home.  Add in a house we love, jobs/work, kids in school, a parent living with us and all the emotional attachments to friends, extended family, colleagues and favorite haunts, and for many (and likely most) people, moving is out of the question. Many of us have fond memories of moving when we were in our late teens or early 20s--everything we owned fit in the backseat and trunk of a beaten up old car, and off we went. On...

Look Behind The Curtain: Discussion with Author Walter Kirn The terrific humorist, journalist, and novelist talks about the downfall of journalism, bureaucratic absurdity, and class cruelty in a blistering indictment of an America turned upside down Matt Taibbi Walter Kirn is from the Midwest, worked for  Time  magazine, and has written a pile of wonderful novels, from  Up in The Air  to  Blood Will Out  to  The Unbinding . I’m from Boston, worked for  Rolling Stone , and only wish I could write fiction. But, it turns out we have a lot in common, and we had a charged and hilarious discussion on Callin yesterday, aided by great audience questions. I know there’s frustration that Callin is still exclusive to iPhone, but in an effort to share some of yesterday’s wide-ranging talk about the state of the media, vaccine madness, the new urban snobbery, and the lost art of talking, I’m reproducing a partial transcript here. The first question came from a...

I was deceived about COVID vaccine safety Covid vaccine injuries are being grossly underreported and censored: evidence from multiple, independent sources Joomi Why did I write this article? In May of 2021, I took the second dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. At the time, I was led to believe that  everybody knows   the vaccines are safe and effective . I kept hearing that  anybody who   believed in science  should want to get vaccinated. I used to be a biologist, so of course I believed in science. So I took the vaccine. If I had known what I know now, I would not have taken it. At the time, I had no idea of the level of censorship that hides Covid vaccine injuries from the public. At the time, I thought we could trust our health institutions, more or less. But not all vaccines are the same, and not all vaccines are equally safe. And criticizing the Covid vaccines, does not make one “anti-vax.” When it comes to the Covid vaccines, there is overwhelming evide...