The Vilified Elite…Poodle

Want to understand what tore this country apart? The fate of the poodle is your fable.

A Parlor Game for the Times: Whose Psyche Is Darker?

Would you rather be manipulated or punched in the gut?

Searching for a Loose Confidence

I do not want to live like this anymore, scripted and tight and rigid.

Dead Malls and Dreams

Malls sold us canned fantasy. It could have been so different.

Do I Hate the Modern or Just What It Fails to Represent?

Finally, I confess...and realize what I have been missing.

Anger Shows Us What We Protect

“What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when we are overwhelmed by its accompanying vulnerability."

Symptoms of Windy Hypochondriacal Melancholy

"You listen constantly, in a kind of trance, for communications from your body; it is as if you have become a medium, and your organs a company of fretful ghosts."

What Elon Musk’s Baby Name Should Have Told Us

Names are significant for Elon Musk. And now, for all of us.

Scatological Politics

The gut is a place of confusion. And yet, it remains our best guide....

We Doth Protest—Not Enough

Hey, was that a police car honking in support? Mmm. Probably not.

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