Politics
PART TWO: No Offramp
Biden tried the restoration thesis. Here's what it taught us.
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Music
Music: Strange Kind of Women
Eliana Cargnelutti and Strange Kind of Women are back, and kicking arse.
Politics
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.
Politics
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.
Politics
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
Politics
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
Politics
You Loved to Hate It Until You Needed It (Spirit Air)
The Spirit Airlines obituary nobody earned the right to write
Newsletter
Sunday Grab Bag: Riot Women, Star Wars, & Patrick Boyle
A mixed bag of topics, something lighter for the weekend.
Cinema
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
Tech
The Bait and Switch (TFG Pt 3)
The third and final episode of this trainwreck: I look at what this passel of chucklefucks is doing to smaller writers as they shred any fidelity remaining to their original mission statement. It's all about the bucks.
Politics
The Comforting Fiction of Clean Money
If only it were so easy as to just reject the mega dollars from corporate villians, alas, there are plenty of other factors that sully that dream
Tech
The Algorithm Is the Policy (Or: Nazis, Then Tate, Then Whatever's Next) (TFG pt 2)
Part 2 of the TFG Trilogy: the algorithm makes the shittiness endemic, and the progression of nazi -> Andy Tate -> (who the fuck knows what is next, but it ain't gon' be good) Yay, capitalism.