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Frozen
January 22, 2018
The Trump junta has now reduced the bulk of the federal government to the activity level of the chief executive himself.
The Ovid of Loserdom
January 22, 2018
In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.
Fresh Hell
January 19, 2018
Now Entering: The Comfort ZoneTM
Is the integrity of your spiritual being under assault in this frightful epoch of data mining and climate degradation? Do you wish you could attain, if only for a fleeting moment, a sense of mindfulness in the midst of this unending horror show? ...
Cops on Campus
This college campus stubbornly refuses to move past circa-2014 Twitter activism. What can I tell my friends to keep them from totally dropping out of any activist spaces?
The Year History Died
In the battle over who gets to wield history’s power, if we continue to play by the assumption that history has “ended,” we will lose.
Carbon Omissions
January 18, 2018
Your sparkling utopia is just dumb dust if non-carbon energy infrastructure is not a central pillar of your program.
Radiating Racism
Until we recognize our common humanity with the poor, it's a shithole world.
Faux-Pas at MOMA
January 16, 2018
I lined up at MOMA for a close-up view of how the brutal business of global garment-making was to be cleaned up for aesthetic presentation.
Fresh Hell
January 12, 2018
Oprah Winfrey 4 Prez.
Proving that the United States has learned almost nothing from electing a garbage bag full of shit and Filet-o-Fish to its highest office, calls for talk show queen Oprah to seek the White House in 2020 started trending on Twitter before she’d even ...
Not a Revolution
January 11, 2018
For now, Iranians don’t seem to be telegraphing the need for or hunger to dismantle their government and rebuild it from the from the ground up.
On Enmity
January 11, 2018
Enmity, rendered gamelike through this remove into the virtual, is the same as it’s always been, only now maybe even worse.