Technology

The Death of Shop Class: America Can Code an App… But Can’t Fix a Lawn Mower

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Can America’s newest graduates explain the difference between a two-stroke and a four-stroke engine? Probably not—and that’s the point. Somewhere along the way, we traded shop class for screen time and mechanical know-how for digital convenience. This isn’t really about lawn mowers or chainsaws. It’s about what happens when a society can build apps but struggles to understand the machines that keep the lights on, the food growing, and the country moving. Maybe it’s time to ask whether practical knowledge still deserves a place in a modern education.

Buckle Up, Buttercup – The AI Investment Bubble is gonna Pop!

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Artificial intelligence may change civilization—but history suggests investors are about to relearn an old lesson. Railroads, electricity, and the Internet all transformed the world, yet each left a trail of bankrupt companies and shattered fortunes before the winners emerged. Is AI different, or are we simply watching another speculative bubble inflate? Buckle up, buttercup. The technology is probably here to stay. The valuations? That’s another story.

A Conservative Audit of the Left’s Ruling Assumptions: The mirror they refuse to look into

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There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.

SpaceX Shares Jump in Second Day of Trading After Record IPO

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Bloomberg’s Bailey Lipschultz and David Bauer, head of equity capital markets Americas at JPMorgan, discuss SpaceX’s success on the company’s second day of trading after a record IPO Friday. Bauer said he sees a real ‘investment thesis’ driving SpaceX as the company contributes to reindustrializing America with ‘new ecosystems’ and the emergence of space as an industry.

The Potomac and the “Weightless” Cloud

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The Potomac River’s designation as America’s most endangered river isn’t really a story about one river. It’s a warning about an entire civilization rushing headlong into a technological revolution without fully understanding the consequences. More than 300 data centers already operate within the Potomac watershed, with hundreds more proposed to support the explosive growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The same digital infrastructure powering our modern lives is quietly consuming vast amounts of electricity and billions of gallons of water. The cloud was never weightless. It was always connected to power plants, cooling towers, transmission lines, and rivers. The question isn’t whether technology will continue advancing. The question is whether we’ll recognize the second and third-order consequences before they become tomorrow’s crisis.

How We Started Scrolling

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I remember when social media used to be a bunch of friends sharing stuff. And that was all.

Back then, social media was mostly a youngish person activity. Older folks thought we whippersnappers with our newfangled phones were ridiculous for engaging in something that “wasn’t even real.” They told us Facebook wasn’t “true socialization.” They told us to “get a life.”

We just laughed and went back to posting pictures of our food.