I’m not sure exactly when I started taking note that Elon might be becoming a problem. I was never an Elon fanboy, at one point he was going to Mars, and that seemed interesting, and I certainly appreciated what he had done with the car, but I just didn’t give it any thought. In fact, after the Thailand cave boys crisis, when he called a rescuer a Pedo Guy, it became apparent that he may have something really wrong with him.
Commentary - Personal
The Hell Just Happened
Invocation There will be events in your life that are so monumental they become impossible to write about. It becomes part of the cultural background,the lighting. “What’s water,” said the […]
Commentary - Culture
Farewell, Aunt Jemima
ZEITGEIST UPDATE: I published this on the 3rd. On the 9th, this happened. Time to buy lotto tickets. As a matter of general principle I try to avoid opening anything […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Politics - TV
The Teacher and the Troll-King: James Baldwin and Milo Yiannopoulos in the Age of Social Media and Liberal Decline
We’ve had a peculiar confluence of two names that have re-arisen in popular consciousness: Milo Yiannopoulos and James Baldwin. Yiannopoulos, the disgraced now-former Breitbart Editor, for his outlandish and self-aggrandizing […]
Commentary - Politics
The Way Forward 1: The Rust Belt
I. Context For a period of time in the mid to late 80’s we lived in Northern Virginia, an area called Fairfax county, just south of Washington, D.C. Coming from a five-college […]
Commentary - Music
History is Blind
I used to have a book that I kept in the bathroom called “The 100”, which made the case for the 100 most influential people in history. When people heard […]
Commentary
Eating the Elephant – BJJ Year One
A number of years ago I watched an event called the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). By now there have been dozens if not hundreds of UFC matches. The brand is […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Humor - Politics
The Lisa Simpson Problem
The New York Times seems to have caught on to what I have been saying all along: that candidate Hillary Clinton has a Lisa Simpson problem. For those of us […]
Comics - Commentary
The Hero We Deserve
Recently this piece in The Guardian caught my attention. In it, Alan Moore, notable author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and all-around high priest of counterculture and geekdom, is […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Short
Who Speaks for Us?
It occurred to me some years ago that I didn’t know what neither Saddam Hussein nor Kim Kardashian’s voice sounded like. This led me to conclude that if you don’t […]