Because this is how you get Trump in 2020. The Intercept just gave us a fabulous gift, by which I mean a gift filled with unreality and myth, that illustrates what our […]
Pay-go Vichyism: you want Trump in 2020?
Frank Balsinger
Lifelong student with interests a mile wide and an inch deep. Autodidact. Pedant, hopefully of the slightly more pleasant sort. Sharer of things learned along the way. Lately of a creative bent.
This Christmas, what wall would Jesus build?
At the moment, I’m thinking more along the lines of Jonah or Jeremiah I’ve got a friend who is an affected government employee. The expectation at the moment is that the last […]
Dr. Tyson, please sue Amet for libel
And have done with it for the sake of justice By now, Dear Reader may have heard that Fox and Cosmos are investigating Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson over multiple allegations of sexual […]
George HW Bush and the Deep State
Let history be our guide One of the few things I agree with the whackadoodle Right about (a very specific subset of the right more generally speaking) is this whole idea of […]
How tolerant am I? How tolerant are you? [Trigger warning]
This article contains inappropriate language regarding race and rape. Actually, the language isn’t suitable for anyone who wishes to be deemed human. This started as a response to a friend, but I […]
The new post-truth normal is bullshit
This just in: Federal judge dismisses Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against Trump “The Court agrees with Mr. Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public […]
Who gets you? Who are your people?
Let’s have a little heart on the sleeve moment here. You know what’s more important to me than whether or not I agree or disagree with anyone about anything? Or antagonizing or […]
Is there a cognitive psychologist in the house?
There’s an outbreak of Dunning-Kruger, and I might have it I’m a peevish little fellow. I know. That’s some knock you over with a feather material right there, now isn’t it? What […]
Is Trump out of his damned gourd? You decide!
That’s the way it might be if certain elements at the American Psychiatric Association get their way Let’s tell this like the Facebook story it started as. I have fun with that […]
Journalists die. NBC fans the flames.
Systemic tragedy demands radical media critique Once again, America is faced with another greater-than-1 body count. As you, Dear Reader, are undoubtedly aware of by now, tragedy struck yesterday. Journalists paid the […]
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