The Magazine

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 […]

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. […]

June 12, 1942 – Anne Frank gets a diary for her birthday.  June 12, 1963 – Medgar Evers pays the last full measure of devotion. June 12, 1964 – Nelson […]

What if Republicans Threw a Party and Nobody Came Imagine a house party. I never went to any while I was at the University of Alabama; I spent my time […]

HBO’s show Made For Love hasn’t blown up social media like many HBO originals tend to do. Twitter and Instagram haven’t lit up with a surprising appreciation for Ray Romano […]

Like I have said before, I go to the movies a lot. With the recent arrival of my first child, that will probably change for the next month or two, […]

The recent Supreme Court leak has unveiled a politically motivated court pushing an agenda that doesn’t represent legal precedent, majority opinion, or even democratic values. This is a travesty to […]

Full Dislosure: I’m a Democrat. I don’t mean that I vote for Democrats. Those are Democratic voters. I mean that I’m running for the Alabama House of Representatives District 47. […]

Research has confirmed that Bruce Wayne was right all along. An alter-ego can be a useful tool in achieving your goals. Let’s just hope those goals aren’t crime fighting in a leather bat suit.

Disney and HBO were both seduced by creators who could talk a good game regarding Game of Thrones and Star Wars.

On August 21, 2022, HBO is finally releasing its prequel to Game of Thrones. House of the Dragon details “The Dance of the Dragons,” a civil war in Westeros that […]

Infantry wins battles. Logistics wins wars.

Although Stormlight Archive hasn’t completed a full arc yet, I feel confident in saying it’s a worthy successor to Wheel of Time.

Baseball’s opening day was last week and many people flocked to stadiums around the country. In Birmingham, Alabama, fans went downtown to Regions Park to see the Chicago White Sox […]

Source Material True Fans (SMTF) are those who take to Reddit, Facebook, lonely balconies, and Twitter to whine that the adaptations are “wrong.”

Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, worked to support and encourage the Trump coup attempt on January 6th, 2020.

So, what’s my point? Tear down the statues of these men, scrape their names off every building in America, and damn their memories?

Will Smith aside, the 94th Annual Oscars was all about letting your hands do the talking.

Looking over the list of nominations, I feel a little underprepared to make any real Oscars predictions, but I won’t let that stop me.

If custom scents for your car’s exhaust don’t tip you off that we live in strange times, I’m not sure what will. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mind catching […]

The Major League Soccer season just completed its third week of the 2022 season and there are plenty of exciting story lines to follow. The World Cup is just around […]

A, non-Batman origin story, Batman origin story.

I haven’t seen The Batman yet. However, I’ve seen every other Batman movie, read tons of comic books, and watched all of the cartoons. I’ve got this. 

With the release of The Batman, I will undertake the Herculean task of ranking all of the live action cinematic Batman villains from worst to best.

Here are eight more essential Black female artists, a few you’ve probably heard of and hopefully several you haven’t.

An aggressive petrostate attacking its neighbors does not become America’s “biggest geopolitical threat” just because it’s in Europe. That’s Cold War nostalgia.

Where are Grogu and Mando when the entire galaxy needed saving?

Happy Presidents Day 2022. Are y’all ready for more presidential gaffes, blunders, and general stupidity?

A friend texted me last week recommending I watch the Errol Morris documentary American Dharma. I politely thanked him for the suggestion, that I enjoyed Morris’ early work but wouldn’t […]

I’ll be discussing some plot points from the show. I don’t call them spoilers because, trust me, the plot doesn’t matter at all.

Put your tin foil hats on. What if I were to tell you the earth had not one but two moons once upon a time over a hundred years ago?

At the time of this writing, Bryan Harsin is still the head coach of the Auburn University college football program.

Here are some alternatives for you to consider along with the pros and cons each provides in comparison to Spotify.

Is The Book of Boba Fett necessary? It’s hard to say, but like Solo, it’s introducing some really interesting world building to the Star Wars universe.

Boomers saw America through Vietnam, political violence, stagflation, the Iran hostage crisis, the Cold War, and 9/11. It’s time to hang up the jersey.

Rasputin still walks among us disguised as Pete Davidson. 

Streaming fatigue absolutely sucks. It will creep up on you without notice. You’ll sit down on the couch after a good meal and ask your partner, “what should we watch?”

I see a lot of movies in theaters. I will try my best to summarize my thoughts from whatever recent films I saw, for as long as necessary.

AEW has revolutionized professional wrestling, but it still has room for improvement, especially regarding diversity.

In the Kingist myth, MLK was a superhuman; this is more damaging than it sounds.

I just ordered my second pair of Atreyu Running shoes. Atreyu is a Texas-based running shoe company that began a few years ago by offering shoe subscriptions. You paid a […]

Senators don’t wear togas anymore. They don’t glide towards the forum clutching six yards of white fabric rimmed in blood-red, but they are inheritors of the Roman legacy. They still […]

I’ve written before that I believe our existence has a high probability of being a computer simulation, a matrix. I still believe this, in a sense, and I can also […]

In conventional wisdom, it’s cute and common to say that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on race. The conventional cuteness says that Democrats were racists until the early 70s […]

So, I have a two part question: does America exist to the duracells plugged into the matrix, and does American history exist?

We’ve covered many of the ways the events of that day are still impacting us now, but are they enough for it to add up to being an inflection point in human history?

If the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, somebody should have told the Confederates.

I’ll never recapture the high of watching it for the first time, but this December, I get to go back to the Matrix. All you Reloaded and Revolutions haters can just stay asleep and ignorant in the world The Matrix created.

Matrix Resurrections premieres on December 22, 2021, and I demand answers.

The Electoral College isn’t a term in the US Constitution. It’s a construction that allows us to envision the collective body of electors who choose the president.