Wagging Dogs

The Southern Poverty Law Center just got busted red-handed like a televangelist caught with his hand in the collection plate and a hooker in the motel room. They secretly shoveled over three million bucks from 2014 to 2023 to bona fide Klan wizards, Aryan Nations goons, and Unite the Right planners, all while sobbing to…

Pretending Not To Notice

A society does not fall apart because one day everyone forgets how to behave. It falls apart because the people in charge stop caring whether things work, and start caring whether things look correct. They begin treating public life like a stage. They manage impressions, not results. They punish the people who point out the…

Delay Deny Defend

Isn’t it amazing how insurance companies have turned into the schoolyard bullies of the adult world? Yeah, that’s right, the folks who are supposed to “share your risk” and “have your back” are now the ones knocking your lunch tray onto the floor. Except it’s not a milk carton and a PB&J they’re dropping; it’s…

Strategic Mask Use

In the twilight of the pandemic’s wrath, as the world spins forth on its axis towards a semblance of its former self, there lingers yet a vestige of those bygone days in the form of masks that cover the faces of the few. They stride among us, these holdouts, their visages obscured not by the…