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Fresh Hell
October 29, 2021
Jackass: The Emoji Following yet another round of ruthless pruning, the provisionally definitive form of President Biden’s domestic spending bill emerged late this week. Shorn of a billionaire tax, a corporate tax increase, paid family leave of any duration, a clean ...

My Enemies Defeated Me / For Nothing
My enemies defeated me, led me downhill,executed my horse, and made me watch.My enemies defeated me, sold my mats, rugs,and colored rosaries at the bazaarto merchants and traders in shadows.In the dark my friends betrayed me.My children saw the hyena laugh outside our window.At ...

The Florida Projects
October 26, 2021
There’s no shortage of places to call home, if only for a little while, in Florida’s Osceola County—plenty of sumptuous McMansions await vacationers on secular pilgrimage to the Magic Kingdom, and Jimmy Buffett-themed timeshares enable visitors to buy into their own ...

Fresh Hell
October 22, 2021
Why You Gotta Be So Mean? Earlier this year, rumors began to fly that Pfizer, enabled by our wondrous intellectual property regime, might possibly have been bullying governments in Covid-19 vaccine negotiations. The multinational conglomerate, it seems, not only wanted liability ...

Fresh Hell
October 15, 2021
The Nightmare of History Generally speaking, “history,” as it’s taught to children suffering through our glorious public education system, has tended to accept that the Holocaust—during which, it might be recalled, some six million Jewish men, women, and children were ...