Dear Reader,
All this talk of a “polarized” and “divided” nation is misleading: if all politics is just a negotiation of sympathies, and it is, we’re only divided because this is the first...
Dear Reader,
Reality has a stupidity bias.
To be perfectly clear, bias is the enemy of objectivity, objectivity is truth and truth is good journalism. So here we sit in the midst of failure, all...
Dear Senior,
What we forget — among other things — is that Leland Stanford was, in the last decade of his life, a vehement anti-capitalist.
Yes, the same Leland Stanford that was an industrial...
Dear Reader,
There’s a reason for everything that’s torn up in your life, and I’ve figured it out.
It’s THEM. Those guys over there — you know the ones, the Big Bads, the bad ones who did...
Dear Reader,
Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer, tap water is mind control, Hillary Clinton is Satan, the earth is flat, whatever. That’s all noise. The real conspiracy, dear reader, is FM radio.
Here’s...
Dear Reader,
If you believe in freedom of speech, you might be a fascist.
Okay, okay, give me a second to explain. The thing about 2017-era fascism — a term I’m using to encompass white supremacy,...
Dear Reader,
Your F.O.M.O. is justified.
“Experts” might have you believe that your Fear of Missing Out, also known as “the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling … that your peers are...
