When Obedience Starts Asking for a Blindfold: The Kelly Affair and America’s Favorite Execution Fantasies
A Country That Confuses Justice With a Mood Swing Every now and then, this country tests whether the roof beams of the republic can handle one more weight they were never designed to carry. November 2025 delivered exactly that kind of structural stress test. Senator Mark Kelly — astronaut, veteran, man who has seen the […]
GOOD NEWS: AMERICA HAS ITS PRIORITIES STRAIGHT
Good news, everyone. Apparently, the American economy is doing great — because Elon Musk is about to receive a one trillion dollar compensation package. A trillion. With a “t.”The sort of number you usually only see in science fiction, galactic empires, or budget estimates for the Death Star’s emotionally unavailable cousin. And, as always, our […]
It Was Just One Battle in the War
Look, I get it. You wanted fireworks, a cinematic triumph, the orchestra swelling as democracy rose from the ashes in a blaze of bipartisanship.Instead, you got a continuing resolution, a reopened cafeteria, and a collective sigh from 330 million exhausted people. And yet—They got the House open again. That’s not nothing.They got SNAP funding secured […]
The First Oath
I raised my right hand. The words came easy. You practice them. You hear them in movies. They’re meant to sound bigger than you—that’s the point. “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” That’s the first promise, and the most […]
The Wind Has Opinions:
Indigenous Environmentalism in Wyoming My wife always says, as the Wyoming wind whistles through the misaligned insulation that keeps our window from sealing, “One day we’ll wake up and the house will be in Siberia!” Or sometimes Serbia—depends on the pitch of the whistling. Out on the high plains, the wind never shuts up. It […]
The Gospel of the Snowblower:
Mutual Aid in Cowboy Country Wyoming gets mythologized as a stronghold of rugged individualism — lone figures silhouetted against endless plains, the ideal of self-sufficiency carved into permafrost. But anyone who’s weathered a Wyoming winter knows the truth runs deeper. The wind may teach you independence, but the snow teaches socialism. A couple of winters […]
From Lincoln to Trump:
How the GOP Went from Emancipation to “Maybe Books Are the Problem” It started like all great American disasters do: with a bunch of men in suits mistaking themselves for moral authorities while mostly protecting their real estate. Back in the powdered wig days—when you could own another human and still be called a “founding […]
Why Showing Up Matters
Even When the People in Power Don’t Give a Fuck I drove the half-hour through the golden aspens and granite of the Black Hills to attend my second ever protest in the Queen City of Spearfish. Fifty-seven years I’ve walked these streets, watched the railroad tracks hum, seen the seasons shift, and I’d only known […]
I Stumbled Onto an “Antifa” Monument in the Middle of Nowhere
And I’m Betting It’ll Matter a Lot This Saturday I was walking downtown—just wandering, trying not to think too hard. Past the courthouse. Past empty sidewalks. Past the coffee shop that doesn’t know whether it’s dying or waiting for the apocalypse. That’s when I saw something I never expected. A monument. Stone. Names etched solemnly. […]
“Oops, We Nuked the Bureaucracy Again”
Are Government Shutdowns Just America’s Favorite National LARP? Return of the Shutdown: It’s Groundhog Day with Consequences Every few fiscal cycles, the United States government throws a tantrum so dramatic it could win a daytime Emmy. And like any good dysfunctional family tradition, we gather ’round the flickering TV of public service interruption to ask: […]