Empires of Poisoned Food

Once upon a time, in a world not entirely unlike our own, though perhaps with a little more absurdity baked in, there was a grand theater of manufacturers who treated the whole business of making things like a cosmic joke at the expense of the human body. Imagine a place where the alchemists of junk…

Policy Based on Pain

The moment serving turns into punishing, the game’s over. If your plan requires injury and making life worse so people beg for your solution, that’s leverage and a terrorist shakedown, not leadership. Calmly describing pain as a way to push through policy is just a deranged psychopath’s pragmatism. Well, at least you know your candidate…

Feigning Incompetence

There’s this general belief that our beloved leaders, these so-called geniuses running the show, they’re just bumbling idiots who couldn’t run a lemonade stand, much less a country. Oh, they’ve got degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and all the rest. Advanced degrees! Yet, the minute they step foot in the capitol, suddenly they’re as confused…