Give him plenty of space on that platform
“I have the flag and pleated bunting delivery for the inauguration platform. Can you sign?” “We are recalibrating the number of flags. We can’t have any too close to the…
Hopefully someone cleaned up after him…
Funny how, in the evolution of language, some words don’t exactly lose their original meaning, but you would never use them in that context in modern prose. For example: “He…
Do you dare step into the middle of this?
“We ain’t gonna get along till you learn to meet in the middle.” “So you are saying the left and right in this country need to learn to work together?”…
Tech Bros Will Save Us … Some of Us … A Few of Us … Maybe One of Us…
“King Elon is coming in, and he’s gonna clean up.” “Yes! There is no one better to lead us! Because he has understanding.” “That’s right! … Understanding of what?” “Understanding…
Futureland is now
Throughout the whole Imane Khelif Olympics boxing fake-Fox-News debate, Walter Mosley must have been jumping up and down and shouting, “I told you this was coming, motherfuckers!”: “Fera was so…
Every Election is a New Opportunity for Disappointment
Every election is a new opportunity to discover more unpleasant realities about our fellow citizens. And, if Günter Grass’s Crabwalk is any indication, we should have been prepared for recurring…
Now happening in every hotel conference room…
“No matter what you think of Trump’s social policies, he will everyone in this room rich. That’s why I voted for him—I want to make you rich. You’re welcome.” “But…
What Little Worlds We Build for Ourselves
“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we’re living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what’s good and what isn’t, we draw maps of meanings…
Guess Who is Expecting
Trump is pregnant.
Do you think you’re clever because you’re ironic?
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is so good, it makes you mad. And of course, the narrator, an “eccentric recluse” in a remote Polish village, has…