House Rules
The Accident
Nowhere else on earth has the thirty-year fixed mortgage. It isn't a market product. It's a 1933 emergency measure nobody repealed, and it's still holding up the roof.
Political Musing
Where I spend way too much time reading about, thinking about, and writing about politics. It is just a reflection of how fucked up American politics is at the moment. Perhaps one day I will be able to write about Guitars again. I am not holding my breath though
foundation
The Oxidizer
Trump didn't blow up the Republican Party. He removed the rate limit. We're living with the consequences
Political Musing
The Numbers Don't Say That
White men fell from thirty percent of American medical students to nineteen. A Princeton professor calls that proof of anti-white discrimination. It is mostly women applying to medical school, and no repeal reverses that.
Tech
One Laser ...
The 1960 hierarchy was written down and voted on. Everything that did the real sorting afterward had no author.
Political Musing
The Doctrine Was Never the Mechanism
Brendan Carr didn't need the Fairness Doctrine. He needed a merger.
House Rules
Are You a Communist, or Can You Afford a Burrito?
Nobody was arguing about food. Chipotle is a price index, the complaint was about land, and the reply — eat ramen, and are you a communist — is a slogan from a postwar sales campaign for the thing that's now unavailable.
Political Musing
Domestic "Events"
Mike Johnson has spent his entire career legislating what happens inside your marriage. He has finally located the one bedroom he will not enter.
The Empty Creel
The Empty Creel Party
The beard is not vetting. A launch video is not a governing record. And a Senate race is a catastrophically expensive place for a first background check. The finale of The Empty Creel: stop waiting for saviors and build the fucking bench.
Political Musing
Off the Record Is Not Opposition
Republican officials have spent a decade privately recognizing the danger of Trump while publicly enabling him. Their anonymous anguish is not resistance. It is an alibi.
The Empty Creel
Independent, but Somehow at the Helm
They vote for Democrats, raise money for Democrats, cut ads for Democrats — and proudly insist they're not Democrats. Fine, keep the label. But surviving the Republican shipwreck didn't make anyone captain of this boat. Part Two of The Empty Creel.
The Empty Creel
There Are No More Republicans in the Woods
The Never Trump movement may have already persuaded nearly everyone it can. Democrats need a growth strategy, not another search party.
The Backlash Machine
The Vague Progressive: Wilson, Race, and the Cost of Breathing Your Own Exhaust
Woodrow Wilson promised Black America a seat at the table, then had his cabinet quietly move the table to a different room. A hundred years later, progressives are still doing the "quietly move the room" trick — they've just gotten better at calling it strategy instead of segregation.