The Art of the Raw Deal: A Retrospective on Economic Self-Sabotage
Way back in history, there once was a man—let's call him The Tariff Whisperer. He had a flair for flamboyant...
Month: June 2025
Russia Released Mark Vodel—Here’s What We Might Have Given Up
Mark Vodel is back on American soil and all Americans should be happy about that. And according to Donald Trump,...
How to Be Cruel: 10 Lessons from the Trump Administration
The first 100 days of Trump's second term—a masterclass in governance, if your goal is to dismantle institutions, sow fear,...
Letters – A combative Musk, JD Vance Lack of American Civics
This is the place where I sift through the mailbag, read what you have to say, and try not to...
The All-Volunteer School System
(When I first wrote this article a couple of years ago, it seemed like good old far-fetched satire, now in...
More Tariffs: The Economic Wrecking Ball
The favorite economic bludgeon of leaders who think trade is a zero-sum game and that slapping taxes on imports will...
Marjorie Taylor Greene: The GOP’s Self-Appointed Wrecking Bal
In the ever-entertaining circus of American politics, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to juggle flaming torches of controversy, all while...
Dirt Nap 2.0: The Future of Funerals
What a relief it is to discover that we no longer have to choose between being embalmed or getting cremated....
Trump’s Harvard Heist: The MAGA Manifesto Gets Marx-y
So Donald Trump, the orange man who never met a gold toilet he didn’t want to tweet from, has now...
Krotchett Rant: The Art of Renaming Things That Aren’t Broken
(Krotchett.com) The poetic brush of a man who sees greatness not in what is, but in what could be if...
God Quits, Says Pope, Heading to Mars
Well, folks, it finally happened. After millennia of patience, divine interventions both subtle and unsubtle, and more unanswered prayers than...
Next Weeks News – Trumph’s Inauguration, iPhone’s Invisibility Mode and Competitive Ironing
With all of America’s billionaires putting their money into Trumps inauguration and buy-off initiatives, there's not a lot of money...