Starting to use DuckDuckGo as my search engine.  It doesn’t track you and provides lots of privacy safeguards other search engines do not.  I suspect sometimes there won’t be a substitute for (ok, I’ll call them out by name) Google, but for now my default search is DuckDuckGo.

A long article about neo-feudalism in American Affairs.  Lots of good facts, but the article seems to suffer from a huge hole at it’s center.  It is trying to discuss a political trend in America without discussing American politics.  At it’s core, Feudalism is a Conservative system, almost by definition.  Still, worth a read.

America’s Drift toward Feudalism