PART ONE: The Table Was Always Crooked

The infrastructure of distrust was assembled over decades. Some of it was earned. The rest was sold to us.

One True Church: The Republican Party and the Logic of Rome

If the Democrats are like the messy Protestant universe, the Republicans are pure Catholic hierarchy.

The Protestant Party: Why Democratic Dysfunction Is Actually a Feature

Next up: How the Democratic party eerily mimics the Protestants in America. Some powerful analogs to explore

God's Precinct: Why American Politics Is Actually a Denominational Dispute

Our politics look an awful lot like the messiness of the main branches of religion in this country, are there solid parallels? Start of a series

You Loved to Hate It Until You Needed It (Spirit Air)

The Spirit Airlines obituary nobody earned the right to write

Sunday Grab Bag: Riot Women, Star Wars, & Patrick Boyle

A mixed bag of topics, something lighter for the weekend.

The Man Who Made Everything: Roger Corman and American International Pictures

More on the trash cinema ecosystem: The man that is the epicenter of the phenomena and the AIP studio that defined the genre

The Bait and Switch (TFG Pt 3)

The third and final episode of this trainwreck: I look at what this passel of chucklefucks is doing to smaller writers as they shred any fidelity remaining to their original mission statement. It's all about the bucks.

The Comforting Fiction of Clean Money

If only it were so easy as to just reject the mega dollars from corporate villians, alas, there are plenty of other factors that sully that dream

The Algorithm Is the Policy (Or: Nazis, Then Tate, Then Whatever's Next) (TFG pt 2)

Part 2 of the TFG Trilogy: the algorithm makes the shittiness endemic, and the progression of nazi -> Andy Tate -> (who the fuck knows what is next, but it ain't gon' be good) Yay, capitalism.

The Other Country: How the Obscenely Wealthy Live in a Different Physics

The wealthy are different from us. Most people don't realize how different. Let's dive into this topic, and try to understand people like Musk, Ellison, Zuckerberg, and even Trump are. It's a ride, strap in!

These Fucking Guys: Substack and the Original Sin (pt 1)

My history with Substack, fleshed out, and the realization that the founders are really pieces of human filth. The first of three posts (three founders) on these fucking guys, and how a noble idea gets ratfucked in Silicon Valley.