It’s the economy, stupid
Reading Time: 4 minutes. One thing that has me sweating like a dollar-store hot dog in the microwave about this tight election is the economy. Sure, if you peek outside…
Orange Man Bad
Working-Class Struggle during Corporate Prosperity while no one notices
Reading Time: 3 minutes. We’re living in a paradox. On one side, Corporate America, hand in hand with government interests, is setting record profits and basking in stock market highs.…
Only Reading the Headlines: Hide Your Pets Edition
Reading Time: 7 minutes. I’m kicking off my new blog series, ‘Only Reading the Headlines,’ with a special debate edition. Yes, I watched the whole thing, start to finish—one bathroom…
Some people aren’t gonna fucking like this
Reading Time: < 1 minute. For the rest of my life I’ll never understand how the Orange Man (that’s right, I don’t dignify him with his name) convinced so many…
This shit is still not normal
Reading Time: 2 minutes. Oh, the media is just so concerned, aren’t they? For weeks, they’ve been hand-wringing about why one of the candidates should bow out. But wait—it’s not…
Not ready for the internet
Reading Time: 3 minutes. Remember those dreaded research papers we all had to do in school? You know, the ones that had you scrambling through library stacks, highlighter in hand,…
Times Have Changed
Reading Time: < 1 minute. “You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” -Abraham Lincoln, 1860s “The buck stops here.” -Harry Truman, 1945 “Government’s first duty is…
Liar Liar, Pants on Fire
Reading Time: < 1 minute. ”We need a small and limited government!” ”We need a small and limited government, I don’t want Uncle Sam meddling in by personal affairs!” ”Pull…