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  • Brian Kilmeade and the “Just Kill ’Em” Doctrine: Fox News Accidentally Says the Quiet Part Louder

    Brian Kilmeade and the “Just Kill ’Em” Doctrine: Fox News Accidentally Says the Quiet Part Louder

    If satire is dead, Brian Kilmeade personally strangled it on live television when he suggested, with all the seriousness of a man discussing football stats, that unhoused people with mental illness should receive “involuntary lethal injections.” His actual phrasing—“just kill ’em”—landed with the thud of a guillotine blade hitting the stage floor of Fox &…

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  • Trump’s Federal Reserve Circus: Cutting Rates and Ties With Reality

    Trump’s Federal Reserve Circus: Cutting Rates and Ties With Reality

    When Independence Means Whatever He Says There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Donald Trump trying to fire someone he doesn’t like. Now he’s aiming at the Federal Reserve, the supposedly independent temple of monetary policy that has somehow become just another episode of his reality show. Markets expect a 25-basis-point cut at…

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  • The Charlie Kirk Narrative Smells Like Yesterday’s Fox News Leftovers

    The Charlie Kirk Narrative Smells Like Yesterday’s Fox News Leftovers

    Not a Conspiracy Theorist, Just a Smell Test Enthusiast I don’t wear tin foil hats. I don’t subscribe to newsletters about the Denver Airport being a Masonic portal to lizard people. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I follow the facts wherever they lead, even if they lead me to deeply inconvenient places like “Charlie…

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  • COTALAND: Austin’s Roller Coaster to Nowhere (Yet)

    COTALAND: Austin’s Roller Coaster to Nowhere (Yet)

    A Park Delayed, but Dreams are Never Late The theme park industrial complex has a formula: announce early, overpromise wildly, and then pray nobody notices when the opening date slides into the next election cycle. COTALAND, Austin’s would-be roller coaster Mecca, is now on that exact track—ironically the only track they’ve managed to finish on…

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  • Apple’s Next Ten Things: Because Owning Your Soul Once Wasn’t Enough

    Apple’s Next Ten Things: Because Owning Your Soul Once Wasn’t Enough

    The Launch Avalanche No One Asked For Apple has lined up ten more products for release in the coming cycle. Ten. Because apparently, the cure for market stagnation isn’t innovation—it’s attrition. If one shiny rectangle doesn’t hypnotize you, surely ten will. The list reads like a fever dream of incrementalism: a faster Apple TV, a…

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  • The Emmys Crown Their New Royalty: Streamers, Sad Billionaires, and Seth Rogen

    The Emmys Crown Their New Royalty: Streamers, Sad Billionaires, and Seth Rogen

    Award shows love to pretend they’re about art, but the Emmys have always been about bragging rights. Who owns the zeitgeist? Who commands the hashtags? Who can throw the longest acceptance speech while orchestra violins nervously twitch in the pit? And this year, the 77th Primetime Emmys gave us the answer in flashing lights: streaming…

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