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The Invitational Week 186: Dead Reckoning
Scene from the 1922 silent film “Dr. Mabuse The Gambler.”
Hello. Today we dive headlong into the future and, afterward, plunge backward into the sinister, eerie, eldritch world of the dead.
Rhyme Will Tell: Winning poems from the futu...
The Cookie Grumbles
Are you feeling tense? Me, too. I write and edit a daily cartoon strip, and an almost daily Substack newsletter, and live in a house where a large dog and a fat cat are perpetually on the brink of mortal combat, all less than two miles away...
At Least Trump Isn't an Embezzler . . .
art by me and ChatGPT
To begin to understand the scope and gall of the corruption of Donald Trump, it does no good to seek historical precedents. I tried.
There are ranked lists out there of heads of state who have enriched themselves th...
An Immodest Proposal
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There’s a big problem facing American cities. Not enough public bathrooms.
There’s another big problem facing America itself: A self-absorbed, thin-skinned egomaniac in The White House.
We can solve these problems together! I have...
If You're Tying Your Shoes and You Feel a Little Ooze, Read this Story.
The dreaded Cyclospora.
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Let’s talk about firehose diarrhea.
Firehose diarrhea has been in the news because of the spread of the poop-borne, poop spewing cyclospora parasite — a development that, according to RFK Jr., was not at all cau...
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