Political for the holidays
Over a year ago now, I got in a fight with a billionaire. (I am generally hyperbolic, but I know our conversation was more tense than casual as I was...
Jokes, explained
I am too online. I am terminally online. The minute I logged on via dial-up modem in 1999, you could not get me offline. My family can attest to how I...
You can fool all of the people all of the time
Jokes are one of the foundations of language and understanding. You can tell, for example, that you are getting good at a language if you can make or...
Me & the carnivores
I’ve been thinking a lot about food, about conservatives, about myself. Conservatives practice a politics of opposition, as we know. If you like it, they...
Art in a time of crisis
I started writing a manifesto, much to the chagrin of my husband. (This is not the manifesto.) But, despite his fears for my overall mental health, I think...
Gladiator II
It has been a big year for old men making no-subtext, all-text movies where Rome stands as an analogue to the U.S. First there was Coppola’s Megalopolis (or...
A letter to myself
When Trump was elected in 2016, I leaned into writing newsletters. My newsletter kept people up to date with the news (a lot of the proven Russiagate stuff,...
Tactical thinking, please!
The Republicans are evil, vile ghouls who all deserve to have their noses fall off due to a curse from a witch. And, yet, they continue to win in our...
Unstructured thoughts as I look towards hope
The Ferguson Uprisings of 2014 were a clarion call and, 10 years later, they are never far from my mind. I lived in the Midwest at the time, but proximity...