There’s something about JD Vance that makes him almost impossible to assess. Like Bigfoot, he’s a naturally blurry creature. His voice lands somewhere between the […]
Author: Alex Galbraith
Mike Johnson’s is the GOP’s top scaredy-cat
If you’ve ever read anything by biographer Robert Caro, you get the feeling that he could wring 100 pages out of what he had for […]
If AI kills us, don’t blame the machine
Imagine a stopped cable car sitting at the top of a steep hill in San Francisco. There’s a switch just below the car that would […]
Can America ever move past 9/11?
Earlier this week in Manhattan, a man stepped up to a microphone at a press conference. His hands were shaking as he added his own […]
Space Force’s new uniforms scream fascist supervillain
Donald Trump was a busy man when the film “Starship Troopers” debuted to largely confused audiences in 1997. Then 51, the future president was rebuilding […]
“Idiocracy” is still a worthless artifact 20 years later
Mike Judge has always had a soft spot for dimwits. Beavis and Butt-head might leave chaos and destruction in their muttering, giggling wake, but they […]
Zuckerberg says AI is “for everyone.” So why the secrecy?
If you remember anything at all, you remember the skeletons. Though Jason and his Argonauts get top billing in the 1963 B-movie classic, it’s Ray […]
Abdul El-Sayed answered 9/11 question honestly. CBS attacked him
There are few consensus opinions left in American politics. The ones that remain, now that Dolly Parton has passed away, fall neatly into two camps. […]
Why don’t celebrities go away anymore?
Do me a favor. Picture MTV’s “Total Request Live” at the height of its powers. Carson Daly shouting to be heard over an audience of […]
Dolly Parton blazed a path that modern country stars can’t follow
Dolly Parton made a lot of things across her 60-plus-year career: massive hit songs, a theme park, a children’s literacy initiative that gave away over […]
The internet is losing its third places
When you’re looking at a thread of social media bots sharing the same five replies to AI-generated slapfights between anthropomorphic fruits, it can be hard […]