America and Its Manspread Destiny

I never would have imagined I’d become so heartily sick of hearing the word “freedom.” A lady of, I’d estimate, forty years or so, with a pudgy face that could belong to your childcare worker, the cashier at Loblaw’s, maybe, if you push your luck, an elementary school class, separates from her group of friends …

The Pandemic: An Unprecedented Opportunity To Profit From Disaster

Humans have spent at least fifty percent of their lifetimes—starting from that day when Throg first saw Scrog wearing a new kind of fur jacket, clubbed him over the head, then took it—wondering a couple of things: Why am I here and if I pretended to be in contact with Wilbur, the Great Caribou in …

A Contest!

Win Awesome Prizes (a free copy of The Book). Hello Dear Readers I appreciate so much that you take the time to read my—I never know what to call them. Diatribes? Pieces? Articles? Glimmerings of brilliance? Liberal claptrap? Well, thank you kindly, you friendly, altogether-too-honest-for-your-own-good SOB! Continue to click like me! really like me! and …

A Lexicon of Conservative Invective

Let's consign these words and concepts to the dustbin, STFU and start actually listening They say the secret to bricks-and-mortar retail success is location, location, location. The secret to marketing success — and that includes the conservative marketing of bumper-stickers pretending to be actual thinking — is repetition, repetition, repetition. Marketing is basically mind manipulation and …

Kyrsten Sinema Puts the “Stick” in “Lipstick Lesbian”

Bi, bi, Miss American pie Princess Kyrsten and her Gollum-faced jester, Joe Manchin III (you mean there's two more of him? Yikes!) once again took a great, big, gleeful dump on Joe Biden's progressive agenda, to my mind far more proof than necessary that there's got to be method to this madness. They "supported" voting …

There’s No One Left Who Can Pay Attention Anymore

and I'm finding it profoundly isolating INKLINGS OF BRAIN DEATH I really started to notice it with my last roommate. He was tightly wound, and spent his entire time staying with me barricaded in his bedroom. But not alone. He had his smartphone to keep him company. Once in a while I'd try to cajole …

BREAKING NEWS: Totally Anticipated Situations We’ve Had Ample Time To Wrap Our Heads Around Are Causing Utter Chaos

Because... That's Just What We Do Now In a shock seasonal weather event that has Canadians reeling with the absolute expectedness of it all, Toronto, the largest city in a country famous for hardly anything apart from its cold winters with masses of snow, ground to a total, shocked halt on January 17th, 2022 — a day …

Amy Coney Barrett is an Actual Handmaid

I wish I was joking ♥ for Roz My suspicions were first aroused when Amy Coney Barrett—and do you mind if I just refer to her from now on as "ACB"? I have my health to consider—when ACB remarked, apropos the MO of Supreme Court Justices, "We're not just a bunch of partisan hacks!" I …

It’s Not About the Freaking Filibuster

and it's not incumbent on Democrats to save US democracy This week, Joe Biden traveled to Georgia, that bastion of color-blind equality, to make a hell-raising speech in which he drew a line in the sand: Which side are you on? Are you on the side of democracy, or the side of authoritarianism? Racial justice …

Extremists are Treating Biden Like He’s Not the Legit President

The problem is they're on the Left. When is a President not a President? When seventy percent of Republicans believe that Biden stole the election from Trump, accepting without reservation Trump’s astonishing, brazen lie that he lost only through deliberate and massive voter fraud — which every election official, right or left, affirms did not …