Middling.Industries

Saturday Morning Around The World

September 28, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdaRNPxfyoA[/embedyt] If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you know that the American world fell into a shitstorm this week. Rather than write about the big topic we’re...

YouTube

Flipping The Script

September 23, 2018September 24, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq73helcwjA[/embedyt] This week, I'd like to flip the script and ask you to help tell a story. I want to tell the story of 9:00 a.m., Saturday morning of...

Personal

Just A Shell

September 16, 2018

[caption id="attachment_200" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Lou Fourcher, at Loyola Beach in Chicago, June 2012.[/caption] It begins one of two ways, either a call to your cell marked “No Caller ID”, or...

News Media

How I Should Have Seen The Fall Of Alternative Newspapers In 2003

September 6, 2018

[caption id="attachment_188" align="aligncenter" width="550"] New York City newspaper boxes, April 5, 2016. Source: Flickr/Dumbo711[/caption] After years of working in the federal government, the annual conference of alternative newspapers seemed downright...

YouTube

Going Deep On Vacation

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZONVeGOtyo Every summer Teresa, Nicolas and I take a week vacation right before school starts after Labor Day. This year I tried to think hard about what the time off...

American Politics

What The Road Forward Looks Like

August 23, 2018August 23, 2018

[caption id="attachment_167" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Capitol Hill sunset, September 14, 2014. Source: Thomas Hawk/Flickr[/caption] Congressional Republicans are not going to impeach Donald Trump. Let’s be straight up about that. Polling continually...

American Politics

Just Keep Going At It

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018

A precocious child who devoured three newspapers a day, when I was seventeen I decided that I should get involved with politics. Although I read the papers, I didn’t have...