BRACE FOR IMPACT

If you charge the Very Stable Genius with one crime, you must throw the book at him for everything, for the reaction will be just as ferocious either way.

Trump and the Butterfly Effect

The 18th century Rube Goldberg device of the Electoral College finally made good on its longstanding threat to bring about a national disaster.

Guns n’ Pleurosis

I made enough last year from reporting rape victims looking for an illegal abortion to keep the interest on my student loan from capitalizing!

The USA vs. Donald Trump: Now or Never!

If the “spark” for the approaching, unavoidable U.S. civil conflict is the arrest of Trump, the war starts at a time and place of the anti-fascist side’s choosing.

‘The Law’ Fears Outlaw Trump

Can we be sure that an enormous mob of crazed supporters would not storm the jail where he was being held to free their Führer? Of course we can’t.

It Doesn’t Take a Genius To Destroy America

American democracy is dying at the hands of a malevolent mountebank with all the intellectual depth of a beer commercial, not an evil genius.

An All-American Hybrid: The Coming Totalitarianism

It is now becoming possible for us to glimpse the dim outlines of the totalitarian Farce/Fascist regime preparing to take power in America, starting with the anticipated sweep of this November’s elections by the MAGA-tized “Republican” Party, and culminating no later than January 20, 2025, with a new MAGA president. However, it is entirely possible

Trump, the Golden Calf

In short, the Leader and the followers are both parasitic on each other.

The Remoras’ Alternative Feces: An American Fable

The new king held what he falsely claimed was the biggest nautical coronation ever, though to most of the other denizens of the deep it just looked like a feeding frenzy. “You can call it that, but we have alternative feces,” one of the remoras told a reporter-fish.

The Counterfeit Wildebeest: An American Fable

In a distant era when there was still ice in Antarctica and wild animals in Africa, a lazy young lion named Tad came up with what he thought was a clever way to save work when hunting wildebeest. “I will dress up in wildebeest hide and tell them all the lions have run away,” he