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

The Magical Hair: An American Fable

Long, long ago, in a faraway country of which we know nothing, a cringing crowd of credulous cretins went looking for a king as ignorant and hateful as themselves. There were many candidates to choose from, such as Lord Theodore of the One True Cross, who was as famous for his ugliness as for his

Li’l Beau Peepster, the White Sheep, and the Scapegoat: An American Fable

In those long-ago days when men were real men, women were real women, and their clothing was all made from domestically manufactured wool, there dwelt a shepherd known to one and all as the Li’l Beau Peepster for his habit of sponsoring beauty contests and looking up the beauties’ skirts when he did, because when

They Made a Choice

We are about to mark the first anniversary of the January 6 fascist putsch attempt to overthrow the American republic, which was instigated and egged on by the Very Stable Genius in his desperation to stay in office after losing the 2020 presidential election. These sober facts would until very recently have been regarded as

The Ten MAGA Commandments

1. I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Except for Donald “Jesus” Trump. He comes before God. God is nothing to him. After all, How many golf courses and fake-gilded hotels does the

What Will It Be Like in America, When the Dictator Returns?

The end will begin for you on an ordinary day in the break room at work.

The MAGAs and the Man

It’s the unanswerable chicken-and-egg koan of populist authoritarianism: which comes first, the Leader or the Led?

Phantasmagorical Beliefs a Deadly Real-World Threat To America

I continue to believe that mockery is a brilliant weapon, both offensive and defensive, to use against murderous racists, because their beliefs are absurd; but one must be realistic about its limits.