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Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Democrats in array. (Public Notice)
Jon Ossoff is the centrist who has figured out how to unite the party. (The I Paper)
Dolly Parton was political but not partisan. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
A guide to fun with algorithms and uncreative writing. (EIH)
Homme fatale vs. femme fatale in Born To Kill. (Splice Today)
Billy Strings mourns his mother on his great new album. (No Depression)
Backrooms is put together wrong, which is a good thing. (EIH)
The nutty Jewish professor. (EIH)
Poetry
100 lyrics that start with “We’re all”. (EIH)
Tribute to our time. (Oddball)
America
America was walking down the street minding America’s own business
when America came out of an unmarked van in a mask
and threw America on the ground, pepper-sprayed America in the face,
zip-tied America and shipped America off to a holding facility
where America was denied medical care, spit on, and sexually assaulted
by America.None of that is true. It wasn’t America.
It was just people.
Tribute to hero economist. (dadakuku)
Free to Choose
Paranormal infodumpsters sashay
like liberal Zionism. Please unbutton your oafish
millennium and bend towards the arc of
Milton Friedman.
Tribute to summer. (Synchronized Chaos)
The Eternal Question
Bug bite
or zit?
From the archive
Don't Worry, Barbie
One of the new wave of female directors collaborates with a blonde, celebrated A-list performer to create an odd feminist parable about a perfect retro-50s female, fantasyland. Which it turns out, is not so perfect after all.
Track of the week
Great early crip post punk by a disabled artist who was censored by the BBC.
