We Need Fewer Heroes
To every 17 year-old who saw the chaos in and around Kenosha, Wisconsin last August and thought “Time to go to the basement and rub one out”: I salute you. Every high school student who responded to the unrest with uneventful nights of Futurama reruns, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, and rhesus monkey-level onanism did God’s work. The world needs more young exempl…
Why is the Right Suddenly Horny for Russia?
I’m bad at predicting trends. I did not forsee the ska revival, nor did I predict that the fashion trend of the late 2000s would be jeans that give you plumber’s butt. I would not have guessed that in the 2010s, people would say “I invented a new currency called SteveCoin,” and then people would buy SteveCoin. I know that I get blindsided by stuff, so I will not be phased if Cardi B cures cancer of if Larry David becomes the 15th Dalai Lama or whatever.
