…to all. Today, I’ll be thinking of our vets and showing my appreciation for their sacrifices by slathering mustard and peppers on a hot dog and stuffing my face with Deviled-egg potato salad. Then there’s this: I know I haven’t been posting a ton here — and that many regular readers have left because of what I have chosen to publish (Orange Julius ain’t the boss of me, as I

There’s a simple fact about many in the #NeverTrump movement that putative “conservative” pundits don’t seem to understand, try as we might to explain it to them: #NeverTrump is not the opening bid in some ongoing electoral negotiation. Rather, it’s a final position already reached — call it SETTLED SCIENCE! — and one that won’t change simply because the latest batch of party “pragmatists” lecture us on the need to

Yesterday, in the comments to my month-old post on the Trump phenomenon and those long-time site readers of pw who’ve somehow lemming-bounced their way onto the #TrumpTrain! — which is, if we’re being honest, just a convoy of shabby, overstuffed short buses pretending to be mighty locomotives piercing a virgin white landscape of latent American engreatenment — serr8d, a freshly-minted mouthpiece for Orange Julius, took me to task for what

In Richard Brautigan’s Sombrero Fallout, the titular Mexican hat appears inexplicably in the center of a small town, having recently descended from the Heavens like some empty, woven-straw signifier. To those inclined to map teleological import to such an event, the hat is much like a Jesus-faced pancake or a Central-American statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood. Or perhaps it’s the mark of an alien visitation, a gift from

Is the bully you have to dance with. Enjoy.

Poor ladies, didn’t anyone let them know that the college they are attending was founded and funded by GASP white people? Last summer, two Scripps College students spent approximately 500 hours creating a 217-page “ Unofficial Scripps Survival Guide” intended to help new students acclimate to the college, with lengthy discussions of topics ranging from food and money management to gender identity, race, and privilege. The authors state that the

Well, how special .. we have several state Attorney Generals who want to put in prison people who deny the Settled Science(tm) of Anthropomorphic Global Warming, at the same time, we had the 4th Circuit Appellate court rule that biological sex is a myth. (from page six of the ruling). The scare quotes around biological sex are especially precious. Black is white; up is down; and …. “You are a

OMG, I’m shocked SHOCKED … Austin-based Whole Foods Market on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against an Austin man who claims he purchased a cake from the retailer that included a slur against gay people. Whole Foods also released its security footage video from its North Lamar Boulevard flagship store that it says contradicts the man’s claims that the store included the slur on the “Love Wins” cake he ordered. Whole