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  • Republicans Canceled Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert Because Free Speech Is Only for Them

    Republicans Canceled Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert Because Free Speech Is Only for Them

    The Blood in the Water Let’s get this out of the way: Jimmy Kimmel is off the air. Pulled by ABC. Indefinite hiatus. No return date. Disney—the big corporate mouse with the oversized ears and the even bigger fear of FCC regulatory hellfire—yanked “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” because he made jokes about Charlie Kirk after Kirk…

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  • Trump’s War on the Calendar: Why Four Quarters Are Just Too Many for Capitalism to Handle

    Trump’s War on the Calendar: Why Four Quarters Are Just Too Many for Capitalism to Handle

    Once again Donald J. Trump has logged on to Truth Social, thumb trembling with the divine power of an unpaid intern, to announce that America no longer needs quarterly earnings reports. Semiannual will do just fine, thank you. If this feels familiar, that’s because it is. Trump tried the same thing in 2018, after a…

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  • Hispanic Heritage Month Cancelled Due to Immigration Enforcement: Culture Meets Checkpoint

    Hispanic Heritage Month Cancelled Due to Immigration Enforcement: Culture Meets Checkpoint

    The Month That Wasn’t September 15 used to mark the start of Hispanic Heritage Month—a time for parades, mariachi, food festivals, and school assemblies pretending arroz con pollo is “cultural immersion.” This year, it marked something else entirely: postponements and cancellations. Chicago’s El Grito festival? Cancelled. Sacramento’s celebrations? Postponed. Charlotte’s events? Scrapped. CBS, AP, and…

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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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  • Trump’s Traveling Roadshow of Troops: Now Appearing in Memphis

    Trump’s Traveling Roadshow of Troops: Now Appearing in Memphis

    Donald Trump has always treated the presidency like a touring act—part reality show, part casino floor, part authoritarian cosplay. And on September 12, 2025, he added a new stop on the circuit: Memphis. The big announcement? He’s deploying the National Guard to patrol its streets. Not because Memphis asked for it, not because crime is…

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  • SNL Says Goodbye to Ego Nwodim and Hello to the Eternal Lorne Michaels Hunger Games

    SNL Says Goodbye to Ego Nwodim and Hello to the Eternal Lorne Michaels Hunger Games

    Seven Years, One Exit Post, and a Cast in Perpetual Revolt Ego Nwodim did what every modern celebrity does when it’s time to move on: she opened Instagram, wrote “unforgettable” in italics, and announced she was leaving Saturday Night Live after seven seasons. Seven years of wigs, cue cards, and sketches that hit about as…

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  • Stagflation Lite™: Now With Extra Tariffs and Tomato Surcharges

    Stagflation Lite™: Now With Extra Tariffs and Tomato Surcharges

    America, you can relax. Inflation is only at its highest pace since January, jobless claims are at their highest since October 2021, and the Labor Department has discovered that somewhere between April 2024 and March 2025, we misplaced nearly a million jobs. (Don’t worry, they’re probably under the couch with your missing socks and Biden’s…

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  • Big Little Lies Season 3: HBO’s Attempt at Resurrection Theater

    Big Little Lies Season 3: HBO’s Attempt at Resurrection Theater

    The Prestige Necromancy Business HBO just announced what Hollywood does best: recycling. Big Little Lies—the Monterey mommy noir that gave us Nicole Kidman in silk blouses whisper-screaming about trauma and Reese Witherspoon perfecting the art of weaponized brunch—is being resurrected for a third season. Francesca Sloane, fresh off Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is tasked with…

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  • Paramount Skydance Wants to Eat Warner Bros. Discovery for Breakfast

    Paramount Skydance Wants to Eat Warner Bros. Discovery for Breakfast

    Cue the Mergers and the Popcorn America loves a sequel, even when it’s corporate consolidation. This September, barely a month after Paramount Skydance finalized its $8.4 billion deal to absorb Paramount Global, the trades are abuzz with whispers: now they want Warner Bros. Discovery. Yes, the company that just finished moving its things into Paramount’s…

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  • iPhone 17 Air, Pro, and the Gospel of “Good Enough AI”: What Apple Really Sold You

    iPhone 17 Air, Pro, and the Gospel of “Good Enough AI”: What Apple Really Sold You

    Apple didn’t throw a pep rally for artificial intelligence. It staged a fashion show for rectangles. Four phones, one new tier, one very thin thesis: design, battery, camera—and then we’ll whisper “AI” like a kitchen appliance setting. The headline isn’t sentience. It’s silhouette. The new iPhone Air arrives as a sheet of resolve: 5.6 mm…

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