Sensational stories like these aren't the blog's beat, but this tragedy so trenchantly captures the country's decline it compels comment: Two black girls kill a Pakistani immigrant in the heart of the imperial capital while thousands of National Guard troops occupying the city to allegedly protect democracy against elusive white supremacists who must somehow be... Read More

One of the worst boomercon takes during the runup to the 2020 presidential election was that Joe Biden was the antifa and BLM candidate. It may have been an electorally useful tactic--though not useful enough--but in terms of truth value, there isn't much. To assume they have a candidate is to fundamentally misunderstand what those... Read More

The live action role playing occupation of the Capitol building went over America like a lead balloon. Support for the action is dismal: "Not sure" responses, constituting 9% of the total, are excluded, so the residuals are the percentages who disapprove of the takeover. As if the optics weren't bad enough, that 1-in-5 working-class white... Read More