The title of today’s essay pays homage to the inimitable John D. MacDonald’s novel The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything in which the gold watch has the power to stop time. In the context of today’s keening cries of tariff-trade-war agony, let’s use this imaginary power over time to…
Twenty years ago, the word “incel” didn’t exist. More importantly, the notion of the “incel” as a person to be loathed and despised wasn’t alive in the popular imagination. Before “incel,” men who were low-status, socially awkward, unattractive, or otherwise unappealing to women were called things like “nerd,” “geek,”…
New York City has a mayoral election later this year, and the two leading candidates right now are former governor Andrew Cuomo and a state assemblyman named Zohran Mamdani. The latter has gained traction in the polls by promising to build city-run grocery stores that “will operate without…
(show joined in progress) Thank you, Jamal and LaTiqu’e, for today’s update on LeBron James and Steph Curry and what they had for breakfast. And now, to today’s final round of The Masters golf tournament. We have a special treat for you. We’re going to cut to Golf Channel’s…
The Associated Press, like the rest of the presstitutes who are anti-Trump, report all news falsely in order to undermine Trump. According to the AP presstitutes Bernard Condon and Stan Choe, Trump is causing the US to lose its reputation as a “safe haven.” Their evidence is a “freak sell-off of…
The Great Gatsby is a novel of manners in which no one minds their manners, narrated by a man who claims to reserve judgment as he constantly casts it. A tale of East Coast decadence populated entirely by Midwestern transplants. A book too slender to sell well when it was…
Exposing the dark history behind puberty blockers like Lupron. Story at a Glance:•Irreversible hormone blockers have dozens of severe side effects which affect between 5-50% of users. Millions have been injured by these drugs, and dozens of lawsuits have been filed by those they permanently disabled. •Originally approved as an…
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor and a central figure in the Obama-era Crossfire Hurricane scandal, is once again turning up the heat on key players in the conservative movement, publicly demanding answers from Trump allies Pam Bondi and Kash Patel about long-promised justice. In a…
White applicants from a British or Eastern European background are at a disadvantage when applying for entry-level police constable roles at one of the U.K.’s largest police forces, according to reports by The Telegraph newspaper. It has emerged that West Yorkshire Police permits Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates…
I really dislike conspiracy culture. This is not always because the conspiracies aren’t true—in fact, often they have a high degree of truth to them. However, it seems like conspiracies have a habit of shutting down discourse rather than opening it up. Culture is the problem in conspiracy culture.
