Swearing Oaths, Defending the Constitution, and Other Fun Weekend Activities
Ah, the sweet scent of democracy! It smells like old parchment, existential dread, and that one guy at the DMV who always seems slightly confused about how lines work. But despite all that, some of us have taken an oath—sometimes multiple times—to defend this grand, messy, absurd, and occasionally functional thing we call the United […]
FAQ: Tariffs
Bishop Richard and George, the Abiscoridan sage, enlightened us with their conversation on tariffs… Apparently, the President of the United States has concluded—despite overwhelming historical evidence, economic consensus, and the entirety of human experience to the contrary—that tariffs are a great idea. And he’s tossing them around like beads from a Mardi Gras float—except instead […]
Who Gets to Be an American?
I don’t want to shock anyone, but in the United States, Americans used to be allowed to own other people. Not in a bad employment contract kind of way—where your boss takes up all your time and underpays you—but in a literal I-own-your-body-and-can-do-whatever-I-want-with-it, including forcing you to have children that I can then sell to […]
They’re Ruining Homelessness!
They’ve been accused of ruining a lot lately—vaccines, the Constitution, birthright citizenship, immigration—but no one seems to be talking about how they’re ruining homelessness. Once, experiencing homelessness was something that primarily happened in larger cities. It was, in a grim way, a “special” thing that only certain places saw at scale. But thanks to Them, […]