Every July 4th, America does what America does best: puts on sunglasses, lights explosives purchased from a tent next to a gas station, eats meat Continue Reading
satire/humor
The App That Ate Your Backbone
Somewhere in America, a grown adult is staring at a blinking cursor like it just pulled a knife. The email is six sentences. Maybe seven if we’re Continue Reading
The Lab-Leak Heresy Had Sponsors and Side Effects
Remember when asking whether COVID might have leaked from a lab was treated like showing up to a pediatric appointment with a corkboard, red yarn, and Continue Reading
Halos for the Useless
The modern educated class has built itself a religion for people who’d never survive a real one. It has all the thrilling features of old-time faith, Continue Reading
The Algorithm Didn’t Break Us Because We Arrived Pre-Cracked
America has reached that glamorous stage of empire where half the country thinks every stranger online is a patriot, a prophet, or a constitutional Continue Reading
Hollywood Put a Wig on the Lie
There’s a new little trick in prestige television, and by “new” I mean recycled with the confidence of a toddler wearing lipstick on its forehead. Continue Reading
The Nice People Setting the House on Fire
The most dangerous people in public life are not the obvious crooks. At least a crook has the decency to enjoy the money. No, the real menace is the Continue Reading
The Polling Sausage Machine Still Gets Invited to Dinner
The modern political poll is no longer a thermometer. It’s a sausage machine wearing a lab coat, grinding assumptions, incentives, and audience Continue Reading
They Bought Both Sides
There was a time when Americans were told the country was split between left and right, as if citizenship were a booth at a county fair and democracy Continue Reading
Your Opinions Have a Landlord
The old fairy tale says we live in a marketplace of ideas. How adorable. That phrase always arrives dressed like a civics teacher and leaves smelling Continue Reading
When Whiteness Becomes Probable Cause
There’s a point where a society stops pursuing justice and starts playing racial bingo with a body still warm on the floor. We have reached that Continue Reading
Failure Got Promoted and You Got the Bill
Failure used to leave a bruise. Now it gets a staff retreat, a revised title, and a lanyard printed by people who think “impact” is a substitute Continue Reading