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Lefsetz: Life Goes On After Mueller Report

It doesn’t matter… It’s kinda like hip-hop. You either love it or hate it and there’s no track that’s gonna change your mind. That’s America in 2019. Polarized. But it’s even worse. Not only are we on two sides, we … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: It’s the End of the World As We Know It

This is how fast disruption happens≥.. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beats the incumbent in the primary, wins the House seat and instead of resting on her laurels, she doesn’t shut up. She continues her campaign, fearless as to the feedback – not … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: The Road Ahead for Music in 2019

This year will be a year of transition… Expect the chaos to continue to rule, but by the end of 2019 the future will start coming into focus. Last year was the year of streaming. Spotify launched in the US … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: Say You Want a Revolution?

I ask you once again, do you want a revolution? You could lose out.  What comes first, your job or what’s right? But assuming you do want a revolution, what is the trigger? (A friend) said it would be like … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: We Just Don’t Care

We’re operating like it’s the 20th Century in a 21st Century world… The media industrial complex believes if it just beats us over the head hard enough, keeps putting faces in front of us, that we will pay attention and … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: 10th Anniversary iPhone 8

Tech is about utility, not fashion… And there’s no breakthrough coming, other than a curved screen. You needed a new phone when they went from 3G to LTE. You needed a new phone when they increased the screen size. You … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: The Conundrum That Is Twitter

Twitter Results are being misjudged… Tomorrow the short-messaging social network will reveal its numbers and the analysts will gasp, the pundits will swoon, and everybody will say that Twitter needs to be fixed. But that’s not the truth at all. … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Queen of Cable

She’s the left wing explainer in chief… I’ve become addicted to the news. Not just the papers which arrive every day, whose apps I’m constantly checking on my phone, but TV, which I mostly catch via satellite on Sirius XM. That’s right, … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: Chalk One Up for Mankind; Bill O’Reilly Takes a Bullet

No one is bigger than the system… You may think you rise above – that you’re better than the rest of us, know more, are entitled to more – but that’s not true. Furthermore, the nature of human beings is … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: It’s the End of the World as We Know it

Am I the only one freaked out about this? I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was only 9 years-old, but I was plenty scared. I remember visiting my grandparents in Peabody, Mass., lying on the sloping porch of their … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: Academy Awards / Oscars are for Oldsters

Who cares? How did America’s go-to awards show – the creme de la creme – lose touch with its audience? Let’s start with the movies themselves. Not only is the human touch that built Hollywood purveyed now on television, but … Continue reading

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Lefstez: Debbie Reynolds & The Game of Life

The thing about life is it can always get worse… We like to believe God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but do we even believe in God? We believe there’s a master plan, that it all makes … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: Time to Revamp the ‘Lamestream Media’

The people telling us to give Trump a chance are the same overpaid wankers who missed the tsunami that got him elected… The most educated person I’ve ever known was Tony Wilson, majordomo of Factory Records. Want to know more? … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: Are the NFL’s Glory Days Behind It?

The story is that the Presidential election is hurting NFL ratings… However the “Walking Dead” won Sunday night. Turns out zombies trump overdeveloped men when they go head to head. This has been a long time coming. That’s the story of … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: Could Hillary & The Dems Be More Out of Touch?

Do you feel left out? I most certainly do. I’m a rank and file Democrat who feels that so far this Philadelphia party has been a circle jerk wherein the usual suspects want to feel good about themselves. Reminds me … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: Donald Trump Take Two; The Hillary Playbook

Stop making fun of Donald Trump! If that had worked, somebody else would be the Republican nominee and he wouldn’t have increased his share of the electorate after the debacle in Wisconsin. The more the holier-than-thou say they know better, … Continue reading

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Lefsetz: The Steve Jobs Rules

DESIGN COUNTS Would Tesla have sold a fraction of Model S’s if it looked like the electric cars of yore? No, it looks like a Ferrari, and therefore early adopters, who want to look cool, purchased it. Few knew it … Continue reading

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