Dec 19, 2024
I always liked science fiction. Science, not so much.
Science always seemed rigid and impersonal. But science fiction, or speculative fiction, if you prefer — especially of the apocalyptic variety — spoke to the gloomy bog-trotter in my DNA.
So I studied the fiction instead of the science, with predictable results....
Dec 12, 2024
When the John Laws collared their suspect in the CEO assassination he was said to have had in his possession a ghost gun, some fake I.D., and a 262-word "manifesto."
By the ghosts of Marx and Engels! That's what I call phoning it in.
Except our man didn't use a phone to compose it. Or a laptop. It was handwritten....
Dec 4, 2024
At The Atlantic magazine, Noah "Fargo" Hawley says too many reporters are writing fiction these days.
Meanwhile, in a fund-raising email from Mother Jones magazine, David Corn warns that the legacy media's value-neutral, highly inaccurate reviews of the various hams auditioning for parts in the Pestilence-Erect's...
Nov 27, 2024
The headline is an inside joke among family and friends, a line of dialogue lifted from the 1978 novel "Panama," by Thomas McGuane.
And now it's the title of a Radio Free Dogpatch podcast, a unsubtle bit of misdirection concerning an oversized orange turd that has proven impossible for a confused and bilious nation...
Nov 20, 2024
Wherever shalt thou see a man on horseback, there also shalt thou see a horse's ass. And sometimes more than one of them, too. That's Scripture, son!
There would be less pearl-clutching in the national media over Orange Julius Caesar doing exactly what we all expected he would do had some button-down editors worn their...