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America Needs a Boring and Sane PartyIt's not the fault of voters that they're surrounded by crazy
06/04/2026

America Needs a Boring and Sane Party

It's not the fault of voters that they're surrounded by crazy

It's not the fault of voters that they're surrounded by crazy

Livestream at 4:30 ET Today: Episode One of "Get Lit With Matt and Brad."A new all-books, all-the-time show premieres to...
06/01/2026

Livestream at 4:30 ET Today: Episode One of "Get Lit With Matt and Brad."

A new all-books, all-the-time show premieres today.

A new all-books, all-the-time show premieres today.

Listen to This Article: Humanity Needs to Get OfflineLog on for some things. Stay off for most things
05/30/2026

Listen to This Article: Humanity Needs to Get Offline

Log on for some things. Stay off for most things

Narrated Version | Log on for some things. Stay off for most things

Listen to This Article - The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy RoundupThe o...
05/01/2026

Listen to This Article - The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy Roundup

The online fallout from the Correspondent's Dinner shooting has been an epic national Rorschach Test

Narrated Version | The online fallout from the Correspondent's Dinner shooting has been an epic national Rorschach Test

Listen to This Article: The Press Promotes Violence and Everyone Knows ItCasual lies told by the news media for commerci...
04/30/2026

Listen to This Article: The Press Promotes Violence and Everyone Knows It

Casual lies told by the news media for commercial and political reasons spawn all sorts of horrors, making its phony rectitude insufferable

Narrated Version | Casual lies told by the news media for commercial and political reasons spawn all sorts of horrors, making its phony rectitude insufferable

Listen to This Article - Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?The SPLC was just indicted f...
04/27/2026

Listen to This Article - Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?

The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won't NOT find it

Narrated Version | The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won't NOT find it

Listen to This Article - New York Times: Old People Suck and We Should Take Their StuffIt’s time to do away with these s...
04/25/2026

Listen to This Article - New York Times: Old People Suck and We Should Take Their Stuff

It’s time to do away with these societal “grifters” and “stowaways,” says an eminent Yale professor

Narrated Version | It’s time to do away with these societal “grifters” and “stowaways,” says an eminent Yale professor

Listen to This Article: How Big Pharma (Successfully) Targeted WomenTwo waves of addiction were prescribed by doctors an...
04/24/2026

Listen to This Article: How Big Pharma (Successfully) Targeted Women

Two waves of addiction were prescribed by doctors and egged on by pharmaceutical marketing — orchestrated by the Sackler family — that insisted it was safe and a great idea.

Narrated Version | Two waves of addiction were prescribed by doctors and egged on by pharmaceutical marketing — orchestrated by the Sackler family — that insisted it was safe and a great idea.

Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twi...
04/24/2026

Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?

The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won't NOT find it

The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won't NOT find it

We Are Doomed and Our Leaders Are InsaneNot one of our presidents, least of all this lunatic, can resist starting wars
04/14/2026

We Are Doomed and Our Leaders Are Insane

Not one of our presidents, least of all this lunatic, can resist starting wars

Not one of our presidents, least of all this lunatic, can resist starting wars

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