I first met Ken Layne sometime in 1991, back when Vanilla Ice ruled the pop charts, the Soviet Union was still a thing, and Canadians still had a reasonable expectation of winning the Stanley Cup.

We have been collaborating and experimenting ever since -- a little newspapering here, some music there, various dot-com shenanigans, all of it in a spirit of …

-Matt Welch’s Caribbean identity crisis at Da Pig Beach

-The State of the Union aka a two-hour hostage note

-A greatest hits, lowest lights compilation for President Camacho

-The futility of “speeching” your way through a math-defying approval rating

-You can’t talk your way through a 38% approval rating

-Let the hockey boys drink

-Dan Crenshaw is allowed to be mad

-The RNC’s new guard of real fucking bozos and sycophantic dick-tots

-JD Vance as anti-corruption czar and populist beard for the crypto-regime

-Tariffs and The Gilded Age corruption engine, now with “ballroom fund” exclusions

-Drug prices are down 600%,….so do you owe me money?

-Moynihan screaming drug questions at his glitching phone

-Marxist Republicans and the gobbledygook of corporate housing bans

-Maybe let’s just abolish the State of the Union

-Dispatches from the Purple State: An interview with Senator Elissa Slotkin

-Stop kicking allies in the teeth to play grab-ass with dictators

-Walking out on Lindsey Graham’s Danish disdain

-AI thinks Moynihan is a neo-folk neo-Nazi

-Four years of war and Ukraine gets a one-sentence hand wave

-Anthropic vs. Hegseth: Code is speech until the Pentagon wants a frictionless kill-switch

-We tried collectivism once. Everyone starved. The end.

-Gemini identifies the mystery caller as Friedrich Nietzsche, chimney sweep

-About that BBC BAFTA N-Word Drama….

-“You’re acting like Israel” is the ultimate Park Slope breakup trump card

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