Laurent Courtines – Digital Product Expert

Does progressivism ever stop and say? You know what? We are good here. No it doesn’t. That is the purpose of conservatism. To check the excesses of progressive movement in culture. Progressives never seem to go back and revise an idea and say? Ooh. Maybe that was a bad idea. It seems whenever we look…

Original thoughts are hard to come by. I feel like an NPC sometimes. I have thoughts, but they are fleeting. A sentence, that could become something but then they leave me. My favorite sport team, Manchester City, is on a six-game winless run. They just blew a 3-goal lead to earn a pathetic draw. It…

Saw Gladiator II yesterday. My initial reaction was – I don’t like this movie. Somewhere in the middle of the movie I wanted to go home. The action stuff was good. Its a big spectacle. Denzel Washington was really good. But the movie just didn’t work. I was disappointed in my guy Paul Mescal (if…

Being the father of a 10-year old girl has been one of the joys of life. It is never easy, but always joyful. One of those joys has been participating in the fantasy world of fairies, unicorns, princesses and ghosts. She loves them all. She also believes in all the great childhood legends – Santa…

The entire creative class is about to find out what the blue collar people experienced from the 1980’s onwards. If you remember movies like Gung Ho, On the Waterfront, or The Deer Hunter, you know this. You know who I am talking about. Those movies captured a disappearing American worker. These workers had a nice…

I spend a lot of time alone. Yes, my wife and daughter are around. As I near 50, I have lived in San Diego for nearly 10 years. I would not say I have made a great friend in that time. COVID editing 2 years out of the time line didn’t help. Those years would…

its hard to write. I only do it so I don’t lose my mind when every I am home alone a lot. Unemployment will do that to you. One of the things I am committed to is when I start replying to a social media post and giving that content to the machine, I instead…

A tip for Cities and sports teams… NEVER TEAR DOWN YOUR OLD STADIUMS. We complain that its dump, but places of historical worship and emotion have meaning beyond luxury boxes. Places mean something and have energy. When they are gone, we lose a little bit of our souls. Think about how you miss your childhood…

We used to have left wing male icons – the rock stars, the punks, the Metal icons. They were tough. They were masculine. They got all the girls. They were for the common man. They fought for equal rights. They could be sensitive. They could be masculine. They got into fights. They smashed hotel rooms.…

In the aftermath of the Trump election, there is a lot of finger pointing. There is also much hand-wringing and general lamenting about what went right or wrong. The thing I’d like to focus on is something my friend said on Facebook: DEMOCRATS-THIS CAN ONLY WORK WITH A WHITE MAN AT THE TOP OF THE…

The United States grew because it was a giant wealth transfer from Europe. I’m spitballing here and really don’t want to look at data because data is no fun and makes thing suck (see Baseball) Anyway, I was on a walk today and thought about World War I and World War II and thought, “Huh?…

I love sports. I have for a long time. My uncle introduced me to them. And Sal’s Barber shop on 96th street always had the Mets game on. From hours of WFAN to Sunday NFL Countdown with Chris Berman or the Sports Reporters with Dick Schaap I cannot think of a time I was not…

Trust is moving. From Government to media to individuals. We’re on the long trajectory of atomization. As software eats everything, anyone can broadcast anything at any time. Distribution has become democratized. Therefore, who you trust will revert back to who you know. And who do we know? The people we spend time with? And what…

On the election I’m not upset that Trump won. I am upset that my wife is upset and I hate that people feel so connected to these results. Our lives are the same as they were. I am upset at how little self-reflection there is. People need to REALLY listen to their fellow citizens. Really…

So Donald Trump was re-elected today for a second non-consecutive term. The poll data is very interesting. Couple of top level things and if you want to find the data yourself, there are better places than this to fact check but these are my quick thoughts. We have something fascinating to review – we have…

I have a big question about Morality and how do we continue to live by it it faith is waning Where does it come from? How do we know our right from wrong and what has informed our Western Tradition. The Tradition that has given us ALL that we have. With its 1,000’s of influences…

I have half a dozen half-baked thoughts on a handful of things.Some of them are about sports, some are about politics, and some are about parenting or just about getting old. There is not a good way to get them into cohesive ideas that would constitute a cohesive full-on post. Sometimes I just have an…

Even as I start to type this out using my phone, I already hate it. I know most of you will read this post on your phones. I am completely addicted to my phone. I can’t get it out of my hands. I can’t stop looking at it. And can’t stop wondering what the next…