All that stuff we shouldn’t talk about

The catchphrase ‘It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature’ was a hit marketing campaign for margarine in the 1970s. The phrase really stuck in people’s minds, kind of like how margarine globs onto English muffins, or crackers, or any of the thousands of ultraprocessed items available in the miles of grocery aisles manufactured by a…

We’re coming up on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In many ways, inadvertently and with blinding ignorance, the MAGA regime holding an Ultimate Fighting match on the south lawn of the White House to celebrate our country’s anniversary is strangely allegorical, because we have literally been fighting for our…

So my Substack is called I Hope I’m Wrong. I named it that because I often make predictions that I hope won’t come true. Unfortunately, I’ve got a pretty good track record.  In any case, we should talk about the midterms. We all have high hopes, some of us even think that they might solve…