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Crypto-Fascism, Inc.
29 May 2025 @ 3:45 pm
I miss the old-school neo-Nazis. You know, the skinheads with the swastika tattoos and the big Nazi flags on the walls of their living rooms. The Aryan Brotherhood-type neo-Nazis. You don’t get neo-Nazis like that anymore. These days, it’s all about the crypto-fascism. Are you not familiar with crypto-fascism? All right, let me bring you… Read More Crypto-Fascism, Inc.
The Godzilla Window
22 May 2025 @ 12:42 pm
Has America been made great again enough for you yet? Personally, I don’t know how much more greatness I can handle. I mean, you got the Salvadoran gulag thing, the crackdown on free speech thing, the threats to suspend constitutional rights because of the latest “state of emergency” (i.e., the “invasion” of America by squads… Read More The Godzilla Window
The Enemy of My Enemy
7 May 2025 @ 12:40 pm
One of the most effective thought-terminating clichés is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It is particularly effective because it works on both people who are, let’s say, not extraordinarily intelligent, and on more intelligent people, people who you wouldn’t expect to fall for such simplistic tricks. It is especially effective in hyper-polarized… Read More The Enemy of My Enemy
An Open Letter To Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and J.D. Vance
12 April 2025 @ 5:46 pm
I appear to be on a bit of an open-letter spree these days. This one is not one I wanted to write. It isn’t satirical, or particularly funny. And the timing really sucks. But I have this “need to be able to look myself in the face in the mirror in the morning” problem, which… Read More An Open Letter To Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and J.D. Vance
The War on Whatever
26 March 2025 @ 2:37 pm
The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empire against its own subjects, but not only to keep the structure of society intact, also, in our case, to transform society into a… Read More The War on Whatever
The Speech Police
13 March 2025 @ 1:39 pm
OK, this one is for all the professional “sensitivity editors” out there, and for the US Department of Homeland Security, and President Donald Trump, and the European Union censors, and all the other self-appointed Speech Police that have been goose-stepping around dictating what everyone can and can’t say and publish and think all the time… Read More The Speech Police
The Wars to Come
28 February 2025 @ 4:26 pm
OK, I’m going to do something I never do. I’m going to publish an excerpt from a work in progress, i.e., the novel I am working on currently, or that I have been trying to currently work on for years but have been repeatedly distracted from working on, for years, by (a) the rollout of… Read More The Wars to Come
This is Not a Test
15 February 2025 @ 4:58 pm
Do not adjust your telescreen. This is not a test. It’s a state of emergency! A full-blown national state of emergency! Yes, that’s right, once again, we need to dispense with the rule of law and take a series of emergency measures in order to save “democracy,” or “freedom,” or “to remedy the distress of… Read More This is Not a Test
Heil to the Chief
28 January 2025 @ 3:13 pm
Guess what time it is, boys and girls. Did you guess it? I’m pretty sure you did. That’s right, it’s time for the Big Switcheroo! It’s Morning in America Again time! It’s Hope and Change time! It’s Putting People First time! It’s Make America Great Again time! Yes, it’s time to change the set of… Read More Heil to the Chief
The Year of the Zealot
17 December 2024 @ 11:58 am
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of faith, it was a year of incredulity, it was a year of expectation, it was a year of tribulation, it was a year of uncertainty, and… Read More The Year of the Zealot