Abandon all PC-ness, ye who enter here — No folks, 9/11 wasn’t hilariously funny. It was a scary time, a horrible time, but let’s admit it, it was also sort of a quirky, Felliniesque time, a period when both the red and blue sides lowered the volume of their hatred for each other to around 2 or 3…

There’s an outside chance Stewart could save the Democrats by inspiring them to abandon the failed New Democrat experiment. But would progressives tune out? It’s the fourth Thursday after the Fourth of July, and it’s sweltering on Capitol Hill. Jon Stewart, a stand-up comedian who borrowed the template of Saturday…

Don’t just blame Christians. It’s all of us. — Naturally, Twitter’s been a hornet’s nest of late over the Supreme Court’s (suspiciously) leaked intention to overturn Roe vs Wade. Crickets on Facebook, unsurprisingly but kind of not. That’s got me a little triggered, so please mind the mess here. Ok, lol, I get that Facebook is the new AOL…

Let us count the ways. — I only bring this up because a buddy, a very talented and supremely frustrated songwriter named Kris Montgomery Pedersen, was wondering why music sucks these days. …

Enough crazy talk about shortening games to make them more “watchable.” It’s never been a sport for actual “watching” anyway. A childhood buddy just posted something about baseball on Facebook, something that was way too long and boring, something about maybe making baseball games go faster or whatever (if you’ve…

Cancel culturists are also hungrily gulping down the bait. It’s not often that my music-reviewing sideline spills over into my passion for writing books about internet trolls, but, well, it’s happened again. Lo-fi indie rocker Ariel Pink, former member of the Lilys (just like half the hipster musicians in LA)…

When fictional teachers cared and had workable budgets There’s nothing more cringe to me than people my age (boomer/GenXer cusp) posting nostalgic bullshit on Facebook (some of these people actually miss TV shows like Petticoat Junction and The Andy Griffith Show), but if they really wanted to horrify all their…

Every leftist and liberal should read this, or at least I think so. Do you ever wonder, do people ever actually get their info from reading things, or do they just get all their news from people spazzing on social media? I have a few general points to consider, if…

In America’s darkest hour since the 1850s, the famous can no longer refuse to invest their platform capital in the greater good Dear celebrities, It’s time for you to act. Millions of Americans — your fans and supporters, in other words — are unemployed owing to Donald Trump’s criminal mismanagement…