May 9, 2026 - Week in Review

Front matter:
As I have begun to post on most days, I have noticed that I am getting pretty consistent subscriber fatigue as indicated by the number of people unsubscribing from the main newsletter. I get that, email fatigue is real, and what was once 1 or 2 posts a weeks now hitting your inboxes daily (or sometimes twice a day) can be tiring.

So, I have created a weekly wrap up post, to be sent on Saturday mornings that will have recaps of the week's posts in a single newsletter, allowing you to click on the ones that are interesting and to ignore those that don't meet the threshold.

If the daily onslaught is destroying your inbox, feel free to click through to the newsletter and turn off email notifications from the main newsletter "Sweaty's Corner" and you will just get this email once a week.

Let me know in the comments if this is a useful evolution.

The week in Sweaty:

This week's installment of Glorious Garbage (Saturday, May 2):

The Man Who Made Everything: Roger Corman and American International Pictures

More on the trash cinema ecosystem: The man that is the epicenter of the phenomena and the AIP studio that defined the genre

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Sunday was a double header:

Sunday Grab Bag: Riot Women, Star Wars, & Patrick Boyle

A mixed bag of topics, something lighter for the weekend.

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You Loved to Hate It Until You Needed It (Spirit Air)

The Spirit Airlines obituary nobody earned the right to write

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Monday, we start a 3 part series:

God’s Precinct: Why American Politics Is Actually a Denominational Dispute

Our politics look an awful lot like the messiness of the main branches of religion in this country, are there solid parallels? Start of a series

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The Protestant Party: Why Democratic Dysfunction Is Actually a Feature

Next up: How the Democratic party eerily mimics the Protestants in America. Some powerful analogs to explore

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One True Church: The Republican Party and the Logic of Rome

If the Democrats are like the messy Protestant universe, the Republicans are pure Catholic hierarchy.

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On Thursday, I switched to talk about the lost trust in the governing institutions. There is some belief that this is a recent acceleration, but the reality is that this has been underway for a long time...

PART ONE: The Table Was Always Crooked

The infrastructure of distrust was assembled over decades. Some of it was earned. The rest was sold to us.

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PART TWO: No Offramp

Biden tried the restoration thesis. Here’s what it taught us.

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As a bonus, we also had a musical post:

Music: Strange Kind of Women

Eliana Cargnelutti and Strange Kind of Women are back, and kicking arse.

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