The World Is Burning and Republicans Are Fiddling
Recently, the Tiber River in Italy reached an historically low water level. The level is historically low because it’s revealing bits of history. An ancient Roman bridge built by Nero […]
The Orville is the Worst Sci-Fi has to Offer
The Orville is lucky its newest season is only on Hulu and will only be experienced by its faithful fans, because it is truly terrible television. Since the show originally […]
The Big Ten Added 2 Teams and Exposed Its Amateurism Myth
If you don’t follow college athletics, you may or may not be aware that the Big Ten announced that it would be admitting USC and UCLA.
On This Day in 1848 — The Birth of Feminism
If feminism is the belief that women are full and equal human beings, then feminists have always existed.
Australian Drag Racer Rolled His Nissan GT-R 11 Times at 167 MPH, Miraculously Survived
Despite drag racing’s easy-to-memorize race track, it’s actually an extremely dangerous corner of motorsport. Anytime you are moving faster than 150 mph, the potential for danger is very real. No […]
What If Aliens Were Racist? Part I: 1619-1860
America has famously been described as a melting pot, but I think of it more as a soup. In a melting pot, all of the constituent elements liquefy down into […]
A Crisis of Inaction
I’ve been hearing about the human-made threat to our climate for my entire life. When I was eight years old there was a lot of talk about acid rain, something […]
Kathy Hochul is New York’s Kay Ivey
Kathy Hochul became governor after Andrew Cuomo was found to have been using his power to take advantage of women who worked for his office and sexually assault others involved […]
Jesus Didn’t Need an AR-15 but Joseph Smith Did
Stop the presses! Lauren Boebert said something dumb. As a day that ends in “Y”, Boebert has silly thoughts she feels a pressing desire to express. In this case, she […]
COVID didn’t go anywhere
My luck finally ran out and I tested positive for COVID. I hope that writing feverishly allows me to breach the wall of abstraction that has always limited my pieces. […]