Politicians and the word “jobs” are clearly BFFs. There’s not really another kind of person that runs around skipping and holding the hand of this word like politicians do. If there were some kind of game show where we had to listen to someone talk for thirty seconds and then guess what they do for […]
Read more "Jobs! OMG My BFF."California. The sunshine state. The state that was born blue, that leads the charge on every progressive cause. First gay elected official? Yeah that was us. First female speaker of the house? Damn straight. You want to talk trans rights? Women’s rights? Protests? Forget about it. California is the great liberal grizzly bear, reared up […]
Read more "The California Blind Spot"There’s a famous saying about Americans, that none of us believe that we’re poor, we only think that we’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires. I have a sneaking suspicion that a rich person invented this saying, because one of the things you learn from hanging around broke people is that they have no problems telling you all […]
Read more "Go Luck Yourself"A twit is a boob. To fritter away your time is to make paper airplanes and count the stains on the ceiling. So something that’s called Twitter is asking us to take it about as lightly as we can take things. Big honking titles like “The Supreme Court” and “The American Civil Liberties Union” on […]
Read more "Twitter vs Intelligence"Money very obviously is power. Want to go somewhere? Well you’ll only go as far as your money will carry you. Your body will only get as big as you can afford for it to be. You’re as strong as you have the time and energy to invest in yourself, as intelligent as you can […]
Read more "Money is not Power"There’s no easy way to talk about who Edward Bernays is, much less to learn about him for the first time. He’s the kind of insufferable cunt we can normally only dream of. None of us really have a problem with accusing rich people of snobbery, or suggesting that they’ve hijacked politics and popular culture […]
Read more "There’s No Such Thing As Propaganda, With Edward Bernays"It’s always fun to look at the history of “the future” as an idea. In the 1950’s the future was made out of atomic gadgets. By the 90’s the future seemed to be made entirely out of neon and odd fitting blazers. And really ever since Jules Verne first started popularizing sci-fi machinery with books […]
Read more "It’s a Great Time to be Alive: The Monopoly Man Edition"There are very few ways to be against government that make sense. It’s easy to be against this government, because it does all kinds of lame things and hurts all kinds of people who don’t deserve it. But to be against any government at all just doesn’t work, mostly because governments are generally not some […]
Read more "The Billionaire’s Haiku"Imagine that you’re from another planet and you’ve been sent to Earth to do some recon. You find yourself peeking through the ferns at a group of humans with a notebook in your hands, trying to pin down just what it is that this animal does. There are all types of people, males and females, […]
Read more "A Crotchety New Tomorrow"Romantic relationships need a good story to work. When two people realize they’re flirting, what they’re realizing is that they’re in the first frame of a story. The feeling has the pull of a plot line, the sense that everything we say is foreshadowing something more complete. In a lot of ways we walk through […]
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Princess Fantastic 