Do you dare to step in the middle?
“We ain’t gonna get along till you learn to meet in the middle.” “So you are saying the left and right in this country need to learn to work together?”…
Tech Bros Will Save Us … Some of Us … A Few of Us … Maybe One of Us…
“King Elon is coming in, and he’s gonna clean up.” “Yes! There is no one better to lead us! Because he has understanding.” “That’s right! … Understanding of what?” “Understanding…
Futureland is now
Throughout the whole Imane Khelif Olympics boxing fake-Fox-News debate, Walter Mosley must have been jumping up and down and shouting, “I told you this was coming, motherfuckers!”: “Fera was so…
Every Election is a New Opportunity for Disappointment
Every election is a new opportunity to discover more unpleasant realities about our fellow citizens. And, if Günter Grass’s Crabwalk is any indication, we should have been prepared for recurring…
Now happening in every hotel conference room…
“No matter what you think of Trump’s social policies, he will everyone in this room rich. That’s why I voted for him—I want to make you rich. You’re welcome.” “But…
What Little Worlds We Build for Ourselves
“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we’re living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what’s good and what isn’t, we draw maps of meanings…
Guess Who is Expecting
Trump is pregnant.
Do you think you’re clever because you’re ironic?
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is so good, it makes you mad. And of course, the narrator, an “eccentric recluse” in a remote Polish village, has…
The MSG Defense
“A speaker at Trump’s MSG rally said Puerto Rico was a floating island of garbage.” “Sure. But you have to understand the context.” “I doubt that. But, okay, I’ll bite,…
There has to be a better title than “box fetish,” right?
“I find, as I get older, my appreciation for boxes increases.” “Boxes? You mean like gift boxes?” “No. Standard cardboard. Like the double-corrugated, eight-fold, 14-gauge box you have here. That’s…