PinnedMember-onlyWTF Just Happened at Burning Man Part 2: Why 2023 Was Black Rock City’s Finest MomentBy midday on Saturday, the story of an otherwise minor weather event in an obscure corner of the northern Nevada desert had somehow become an above-the-fold, A1 story in nearly every major news outlet on Planet Earth. What amounted to just less than an inch of rainfall left some of…Burning Man 20238 min readBurning Man 20238 min read
PinnedMember-onlyGimme Some TruthI’m sick and tired of hearing things, From uptight, short sighted, narrow minded hypocrites, All I want is the truth, Just gimme some truth, I’ve had enough of reading things, By neurotic, psychotic, pig headed politicians, All I want is the truth, Just give us the truth, -John Lennon —…Presidential Transition8 min readPresidential Transition8 min read
Oct 4, 2022Member-onlyWhat the Fuck Just Happened at Burning Man?It’s been just under four weeks since I returned from Burning Man. My 15th deployment there as an employee and the 24th overall. Like a LOT of other people — I’m still trying to sort out what the fuck just happened back there. I’m one of the lucky ones. I…Burning Man13 min readBurning Man13 min read
Oct 10, 2020Member-onlyPicture a Trumpless VoidFor the last four years, we have had every facet of our lives sucked into the bottomless vortex that is Donald Trump. He has consumed all the oxygen of our information biosphere, and all we are left to breathe are his inescapable farts. Trump is the drunkest, loudest traveling salesman…Trump5 min readTrump5 min read
Apr 23, 2020Member-onlyThe Tyranny of IgnoranceIt must be hard to be a Libertarian in the age of Trump. Imagine watching all your best ideas consistently co-opted and / or intersectional with folks that can unapologetically fly a confederate or nazi flag with no hesitation in public in the age of ubiquitous cell phone cameras and…Coronavirus7 min readCoronavirus7 min read
Mar 22, 2020Member-onlyCome to Thanos: How I learned to stop worrying and love the coronavirus.As perennial nincompoop and walking case study for the Dunning- Kruger Effect Donald Trump is just now discovering — that ‘rona is nothing to fuck with. As of this writing, the global case count (that we even know about) is just north of 304,000, with 14,573 deaths. The absolute ineptitude…Coronavirus7 min readCoronavirus7 min read
Mar 11, 2020Member-onlyNo. You Can’t Have a Pony: Biden, Trump and the Single Issue ElectionDonald Trump isn’t just an idiot — he’s a magical idiot. Beyond being just a yawning chasm of ignorance, he’s actually a sucking vortex of idiocy that literally bends cognitive space-time for simply coming near him. As republican strategist Rick Wilson put it — everything Trump touches dies. Literally an…Election 20207 min readElection 20207 min read
Feb 6, 2020Member-onlyBURNING DOWN THE AMERICAN REICHSTAG: Fear and Loathing in the World’s Most Cowardly Deliberative BodyAndrea Mitchell: “I can tell you this … one Republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump” Jeff Flake (R–AZ): “That’s not true. There would be at least 35” In the end — just one of the fifty-three Republican members…Trump9 min readTrump9 min read
Dec 30, 2019Member-onlyThe 2010s: The Decade of Shitty White PeopleWe were so close. For a minute there it seemed like America had come to its goddamn senses. It closed out the first decade of the new century by electing its first African-American president, while simultaneously handing him healthy, veto-proof majorities in both the House and Senate after a decade…Politics10 min readPolitics10 min read
Mar 30, 2019Member-onlyThe Kids Are Alright: One year laterAlmost one year ago to the day, after spending a day at the March for Our Lives, I woke up the next morning and jotted down a few paragraphs and posted it on Facebook largely breaking down the difference between how millennial kids and the rest of us were processing…Gun Violence7 min readGun Violence7 min read
