Opinion – Luke H. Smith

Whither Social Media?

March 28, 2018 Luke Comments 0 Comment

I’ve been waffling lately over the role social media is going to play in my life going forward. And several factors, both personal and global, contribute to that uncertainty. And by “social media” I’m largely referring to Facebook. On the global level: Several friends have deleted their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal currently simmering in our national discourse. And I have to say that the egregiousness of that data breach is breathtaking. No, it’s not…

The 2016 Shitshow Comes to a Blessed Close

November 8, 2016 Luke Comments 0 Comment

(Author’s note: Upon review, this is crazily all over the place (no, I haven’t been drinking; I opted for abstinence in the face of potentially devastating news tonight) and it seemed a lot more coherent when I thought about it over the course of the day, but…oh well.) I’ve had the urge to write a column on the 2016 election for many months now. At various times during this tragi-comedy that passes for our political process, the urge to open…

Shame On Me

June 11, 2013 Luke Comments 0 Comment

Remember back in 2008 when some of the wingnuts in our country (and there were/are a lot of ’em) were touting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a “Manchurian candidate.” Their teabag-inspired fears were that Obama was a plant, a mole who was going to destroy America from the inside, all to benefit some nefarious entity: Al Queda, China, evil Communism. Imagine my surprise when, five years later, we find out that those wingnuts were right: Obama WAS a Manchurian…

Luke H. Smith

"And he said, ‘Stomp upon the terra.’" –Lord Buckley (via Hunter Thompson)

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