Remember When Music Mattered?
Mourning MTV and the Death of Shared Culture On October 10, 2025, MTV quietly announced it’s pulling the plug on its last remaining music channels. No tearful farewell, no retrospective montage. Just: “We’re done.” By New Year’s Eve, whatever was left of MTV’s musical soul will be algorithmic roadkill—absorbed, rebranded, or buried in a corporate […]
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 Math Joke That Outrage-
Snowflakes Turned Math Into Murder A group photo of Cienega High School’s math teachers in Vail, Arizona went viral on Halloween: white tees, fake bBefore this became a costume referendum, it was a resource problem. Equality in education is not a vibes project; it’s a math problem: who gets laptops that work, a counselor when […]
They Took It All — And Some Are Clapping
What Trump Has Stripped in 2025 (And Why Some Don’t Even Notice) The Ground Shift You Felt Feeling off lately? Dizzy, disoriented, like the floor beneath the country just rearranged while you blinked? It’s not your imagination. That’s your body registering systemic collapse. Civil structures—legal protections, social contracts, institutions—aren’t quietly evolving. They’re being ripped out. […]
🎃 The Sacred Art of Spook and Snack:
Why We Need Halloween (and the Switch Witch) Once a year, society gives us permission to be absolutely ridiculous — and somehow, it’s part silly, and part holy. We call it Halloween, but what it really is, dear bright ones, is collective therapy through sugar and fear. For one night, we shrug off the weight of being […]
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 […]
When the Safety Net Splits:
SNAP, Shutdowns, and the Fight for Dignity I’ve relied on food stamps more times than I can count. As a kid, they kept our pantry from turning into a haunted echo chamber of expired ketchup packets.In college, they were the difference between eating lunch or gnawing on existential dread.And now? My father—living on SSI—relies on […]
Why Donald Trump Has a Star on the Walk of Fame (But Not a Nobel Peace Prize)
You Can Buy a Star. You Can’t Buy a Nobel. (Much to His Chagrin.) There’s a stretch of sidewalk in Hollywood where celebrity is paved into permanence—where stars are not born but bought. And there, nestled among legends and living punchlines, lies one Donald J. Trump. Immortalized in pink granite, gleaming like a MAGA fever […]
Tearin’ Down the House;
“Trump’s Ballroom Blitz: Bulldozing History During a Shutdown (Because Of Course He Is)” Trump’s East Wing Demolition Is Loud, Garish, and Perfectly Timed to the Collapse of Everything While federal workers go unpaid and the lights flicker off in government offices across the country, bulldozers are chewing through American history like it’s drywall on discount. […]
Thank You (Inflatable Nation)
A Pastoral Rant in Five Bounce-Filled Movements The world is on fire, and someone showed up dressed like a giant inflatable penis.Good.Not because it’s funny (though it is, deeply). Because when oppression becomes a theater of cruelty, resistance must become a circus of the surreal. When the powers-that-be put on pageants of brutality, we respond […]