Hey there folks. Haven't had much time to get anything together here for a while, though I have loads of drafts sitting around. And don't anticipate that changing much for the near future, with this middle-aged father taking over full-time duties for two babies come the end of March.

There's an excellent series on "intersectionality" in the Black Agenda Report. The invocation of "intersectionality," like Rachel Maddow's crusade against Russia and like the periodic calls to impeach Trump, is more evidence of a supposedly-thriving pseudo-left, in which victory is always depicted as a campaign or two away.

Cross posted from Real Economics.

Ever since the media reported how millennials are embracing socialism, there's been a non-stop parade of "Don't you know how bad socialism is?" articles in the press.

Tickets to Hamilton on Broadway are hard to get, but recently there was an event in which tickets were near impossible to get.

François Hollande's disastrous Presidency is nearing an end with his popularity running at around 4%, yes 4 %. Thankfully the voters in the PS [Parti Socialiste] rejected more of the same and thereby a complete election wipe out.

I supported and did some work for the campaign of Benoît Hamon, so why did I do so?

One over-riding subject:

The growing domination of the populist right-wing over the mainstream, neoliberal center-left gets most of the headlines, but the building rebellion by the left-wing against neoliberalism is no less important.
The latest rebellion is in France.