It’s almost easy to forget at this point that back in the 2000’s the “New Atheist” movement was a reaction to the idiotic rich people tax cuts/war mongering evangelicalism of the Bush…
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Is there a popular conspiracy theory out there implying that con men like Alex Jones are actually deep state actors planted to make conspiracy theories look spectacularly stupid? If there is, I’ll…
(Originally posted at Gods & Radicals) “We do not only participate in insurrections led by anarchists but also in all the other insurrections that have the characteristics of the people in revolt,…
Wow, an internet celebrity I’ve actually heard of for once. Granted, I’ve probably only sat through like one of his music reviews total, but they come up as suggestions on YouTube when…
Now, the downside there of course is that Illuminati agents have entered into the minds of their government agencies and are currently installing NWO domination plans. Poor fools. No, the real reason…
(Originally Posted at Gods & Radicals) I wonder how long I’ll be able to see the moon like this, every store and workshop closed by the fist of the goddess Irma. The…
The Phoenix New Times has just released news of internet satirist and “fake news” author, Paul Horner, has passed away in his sleep September 18th – he was 38 years old. Details…
The correct answer is police control ALL of the above. Policing in the United States wasn’t designed to befriend the local citizenry. Colin Kapernick attempted to address the issue. Now the powers…
Is there any defending the sheer ridiculousness of our economic system at this point? When you take the environment into account, the whole thing seems more and more like a rapidly accelerating…
Look, I don’t want anyone to think I’m moralizing here. The fact is, I’ve used cocaine recreationally in the past and never had an issue. Not even kind of. It almost has…
The problem with American politics is that there are centrist billionaires who don’t give much of a shit about politics, and creepy religious “libertarian” billionaires who invest heavily in batshit nonsense like…
Remember how I was just talking about how conspiracy theories have jumped the shark? This is EXACTLY what I was talking about. From Politico: “Hours after an interview I did with Alex Witt…
For a while I’ve been wondering how conspiracy theories went from: “what the hell’s going on with UFO’s?” to “aren’t Republicans great!” in such a short period of time, but the truth…
Excerpt from Narrative Machines. B&W 1st edition Available Now on Amazon, $13.95 What is French? This question cannot be answered by sounding out empty shells: Charles Martel, Joan of Arc, etc. On the subject…
Lord, I typically try to block this shit out of my mind to the best of my abilities but I stumbled on this the other day and, well, it’s just creepy as…
(Originally posted at Gods & Radicals) I imagine they held hands before they fell to their deaths. Maybe there was a quiet moment shared between two lovers, an acknowledgement of all they’d…
Some people wonder why I condescend to materialists. This is why. (from The Atlantic): “How widespread is this promiscuous devotion to the untrue? How many Americans now inhabit alternate realities? Any given…
A few weeks back I brought up the Forbes Billionaires list and how utterly creepy it is, but in perusing that I confirmed a long time suspicion of mine. There are zero…
Sorry, Republicans, Randians and Booth School MBAs: Your beloved laissez-faire free market capitalism is a fax machine with a Motorola pager clipped to its JNCOs. If you’re still clinging to mid-20th century…
(Originally posted at Gods & Radicals) What you are about to read is a real life horror story. It is a tale of tear gas, bloodshed, and fascists burning a black man alive;…
Perhaps no single piece of legislature has been more hotly contested in the last decade of American politics than Barack Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act — also known as…
God, I love how people for some reason want to explain to me how awful liberals are and it’s like: no shit. Why do you think I don’t know this? I live…
Okay, the thing you have to keep in mind about this story is that both parties are just as bad and because of that it doesn’t really matter who you vote for….
(Originally posted at Gods & Radicals) If Donald Trump had stood before 19 countries, his white skin practically gleaming under lights and television cameras, and said that Africa’s problems weren’t due to…
Content Warning: This article is an honest critique of call-out culture, language policing, cultural appropriation, and privilege politics from the perspective of classical liberalism, assertiveness training, and yes, intersectionality. If the idea…