This Week's Writing 4/19/25
Van Hollen vs. Newsom and other morality tales.
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And here’s what I published this week!
Politics
How fascists use charges of corruption. (Public Notice)
Stephen Robinson and I talk about why Ds keep normalizing Trump. (Play Typer Guy)
Ds need to forget the lessons of 2024. (EIH)
Van Hollen shows the way. (EIH)
Gavin Newsom is a piece of shit. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
American Psycho got toxic masculinity right 25 years back. (Dame)
Casualties of War is terrible. (Splice Today)
How loving jazz can make you hate. (EIH)
Companion doesn’t believe in AI. That’s a good thing. (EIH)
Poetry
Little poem about aging. (Oatleaf)
The Last Time
The last time I saw my parents
was not the last time I’ll see my parents,
probably.
But it’s coming,
slowly across a shorter distance
like walking my mom down the walk
with her cane and her new knee
out to the big, twisted tree.
“There’s a lotus flower there,” Mom said,
“in the crook of the tree.”
It blooms once a year, but I missed it. She laughed,
because what can you do,
and we walked back up the walk.
Maybe I’ll see it next time.
Perfect poem. (Five Fleas)
The Ideal Mitten
I would rather much be
in the middle of
a greater in
the middle of
with a prescription and
a lozenge and
a very good dog.