Step 5 is so important. The biggest mistake lefties (like me) always make is thinking one election solves the problems for all time. We elected Obama, declared a “post-racial America,” and went back to our disconnected lives. We put more effort into researching craft cocktails than in who’s running for local office. I…

Read the book. It explains the whole thing.

Some of the most successful innovations to the McDonald’s menu have come from franchisees.

A friend of mine once observed “You know how Seinfeld is a show about nothing? Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant about everything.” If the menu has tabs, you know you’re in trouble.

The Sainted and Exalted Founding Fathers envisioned holding office as part of a civic duty—you took a break from running your business to serve your community for a term or two, then returned to your business. Of course, that immediately got corrupted once elected officials realized it’s easier and more lucrative to…

Up where I am, there was a front page headline “Police Join Protestors in March for Racial Justice.” Then you read the article: “When asked what changes people might expect, the local police chief said ‘We do not anticipate changing any of our policies’.”

If I were in office, you’d have to deal with twice-annual Depression Sabbaticals: two separate weeks out of every year where the press has to ask “Where is President O’Mac?” and my PR people have to say “He’s currently under a blanket on a futon in the White House basement, binge watching Mad Men, wondering what the…

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

OWS could’ve been something if they’d had a few less drum circles and a few more strategy planning sessions. I distinctly remember the message being “no leaders” and “no goals.” It was the activist equivalent of those people who followed Forest Gump on his jog across America only to have him lose interest one day and…

Exactly.

The saddest part is that he’s doing all this tough guy shit for the approval of a man who’s been dead for 21 years.

This is the difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. Both founded in outrage. But the goddamn Tea Party picked a bunch of assholes they could rally around, ran for offices, won, rebranded as the “Freedom Caucus,” and now they are a part of the political establishment ruining the country. Meanwhile,…

It’s a Christ-off everyone! Stand back!

Middle school white boys are the middle class white women of children.

I ended up on some mailing list that sends cocktail recipes. Today I got an email from them telling me they were taking the day off “to listen and learn” and, oh, by the way, here are some organizations I might be interested in. Of course, no mention of if any of this cocktail recipe newsletter Editorial Team has…

I’m very interested to see any statistics on if the proliferation of rubber bullets has lead to an uptick in cops drawing and firing a weapon. I would guess that having the word “non-lethal” in your mind makes it much easier psychologically to shoot at another human being. But then you get a slippery slope, because…

He’s interested in punishment. That’s it. His entire mindset is based around elevating himself by bringing others down. It’s textbook narcissism: He denies his crippling insecurity by finding ways to cast others as less than—if he can see someone as inferior to him, then they can’t hurt his fragile ego. This is the…

That’s ridiculous. Don Jr. will never be elected. A prince assumes the throne.

I don’t take comfort in the news media trolling any president (even an illegitimate and impeached one). Just more proof of the systemic rot.

“Is that your Bible?”