Does Reality Have Us Fact-Checking Satire?
Even labeled as satire, it feels too real. […]
Does Reality Have Us Fact-Checking Satire?
The funniest thing — or maybe the scariest — is that we have to fact-check satire now. Even labeled as satire, it feels too real. Labeled or not, people still believe it — because our education system and social media have all but destroyed cognitive literacy. Meanwhile, powerful and influential people continue to push the limits of decency and reason. We used to say, “Ha! That has to be satire.”Now we ask, “Wait… is this real?” A Note on the Origins of Satire Long before mass media blurred the lines between humor and reality, the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes was…
Scott Bessent, Soybean Farmer: The Absurdity of Privilege in the Face of Hardship
I’m still trying to wrap my head around Scott Bessent’s straight-faced claim that he’s “actually a soybean farmer” who has “felt this pain too.” That’s about as believable as a feudal lord calling himself a plowman because he owns the field. My very first thought was of Steve Martin’s famous line from The Jerk: “I was born a poor black child.” Let’s be clear: Bessent isn’t out there fixing combines or watching the sky for rain.Hell, he probably doesn’t even have a subscription to The Farmer’s Almanac. He’s a billionaire hedge-fund guy — a former Soros lieutenant turned Treasury Secretary…
“But, What About The Blueberries?”
I saw some news footage of violent anti-government demonstrations in Peru — Molotov cocktails, fires in the streets, tear gas drifting like spicy fog. My first thought (darkly flippant) wasn’t about the suffering or the politics. It was, “How will this affect my blueberry supply in Thailand?” That’s globalization in a nutshell: we’ve built a world so interconnected that a protest ten thousand miles away makes me worry about smoothie ingredients. It’s absurd, but it’s also true. In that space between one-click shopping and a thousand-click news cycle, empathy sometimes gets lost. My second thought wasn’t any more noble —…
Does Reality Have Us Fact-Checking Satire?
The funniest thing — or maybe the scariest — is that we have to fact-check…
Scott Bessent, Soybean Farmer: The Absurdity of Privilege in the Face of Hardship
I’m still trying to wrap my head around Scott Bessent’s straight-faced claim that he’s “actually…
“But, What About The Blueberries?”
I saw some news footage of violent anti-government demonstrations in Peru — Molotov cocktails, fires…
The Honestly Mistaken Man Quote
In it, he wrote a line […]
Posse Commit Us
” exclaimed little Rufus. “They bullied up about half Tuesday and ain’t left yet!” As the sun set beyond Lonetree, flying mortars […]
Animal Shelter Scam Investigative Report – August 1, 2025
But this investigation reveals […]