Rush Limbaugh Eaten by Feral Children
If a just and merciful God actually ruled our modest corner of the universe, this might well be the last headline in the last newspaper before the world’s presses are shut down forever. The justice of...
View ArticleA Dime-Store Apocalypse
Since anyone who’s wandered this far into Dogtown already knows that I’m less than optimistic about the future of the United States, and knows how I came to be that way, I don’t suppose it would do my...
View ArticleA Tinkerer’s Damnation
Originally appeared as a comment on Autonomy for All. Reposted here with minor changes. Tinkering…. As good a word as any for a dearth of political will. I hate to bash Brad DeLong, who’s one of the...
View ArticleBrief Encounters with Austrians
Fiat Currency. Fractional Reserve Banking. Collectivism. Curse words as familiar these days on the Intertubes as socialist or liberal used to be at Baptist church suppers. Disciples of the Austrian...
View ArticleFuggedaboudit
Never mind. I definitely will NOT be calling you next Fall to urge you to vote for President Obama. He may very well be the lesser of two evils, but I just donated my shares in the evil-measuring...
View ArticleThe Democratic Deficit in Europe — Another View
From Dani Rodrik’s Europe’s Next Nightmare in Project Syndicate: The challenge is to develop a new political narrative emphasizing national interests and values without overtones of nativism and...
View ArticleA Brief Message to Our Imperial Propagandists
To all of you with your well-rehearsed defenses of universal kill lists: The quality of mercy is not feigned…. That is all.
View ArticleRighteous Eloquence
Reparations for Ferguson by Ta-Nehisi Coates. All that needs to be said.
View ArticleFrom 1994: The Future of Our Discontents
This essay appeared here and there on the Web in the mid-Nineties in slightly different versions — at one point it was even published in translation by an Italian Blade Runner fan site. There are...
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Teddy Bears’ Picnic
If you go down in the woods today, you better not go alone. It’s lovely down in the woods today, but safer to stay at home…. Courtesy of Furrious Leader (a Wookie amongst the Ewoks, as he never tires...
View Article21st Century Institutions: the U.S. Presidency
Donald Trump is not the first U.S. President to be elected in the 21st Century, and the odds are he’s not going to be the last.* He does seem likely, however, to go down in history as the century’s...
View ArticleEppur Si Muove
It’s probably a good thing that no one in the Republican Party dares contradict the vicious imbeciles of the Trump administration. Better for the rest of us if they’re all still looking in the wrong...
View ArticleBrown Is the New Blue
The New York Police Benevolent Association’s bid to turn urban police departments into America’s Sturmabteilungen. Now that Patrick Lynch, President of the New York Police Benevolent Association, has...
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Herrenvolk
Giammai di questo fondoNon tornò vivo alcun From these depthsNo one livingHas ever returned Dante, Inferno, XXVII, 64–65
View ArticleIl Miglior Fabbro
Today in the Guardian, a number of Bob Dylan’s fellow musicians contributed to a celebration of his 80th birthday by naming their favorite Dylan songs, and commenting on their choices. In her...
View ArticlePost Quarantination
I‘m beginning to suspect that at the end of the day, murder/suicide will turn out to have been the quintessential American art form. We‘ve got a ways to go yet before we find out for sure. Hard to miss...
View Article21st Century Institutions: The U.S. Democratic Party
The discrete charm of the bourgeoisie.
View ArticleSigns
1. Putin’s table being longer than Trump’s necktie. 2. Representative Boebert mistaking her Glock for a sex toy on national TV. 3. Sinema verité (Interviews with bamboozled Arizona Democrats) 4....
View ArticleJust So We’re Clear
A word to the loudmouths of the Republican Party: We get it—the future scares you, and you want to make that our fault. You should think again. The future can’t be bullied into submission. Neither can...
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