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November 5, 2018 by Dave Knadler

When we first moved to this old neighborhood in Northeast Florida, I decided to hang an American flag out front. Not for patriotic reasons, really; it’s just that the previous owners had one, and this is a historic area where Old Glory on the front porch kind of fits the vibe. Florida’s heat and rain and humidity are hard on flags. I replaced mine for the first […]

Filed Under: american life, election, politics, thatfuckingtrump

Season of the witch

October 1, 2018 by Dave Knadler

Too soon for Halloween? No way! Not when Costco and Walmart are already jam-packed with Christmas crap on October 1. I wanted to mention a podcast I’ve been enjoying in the run-up to All Hallow’s Eve: “Spooked.” Every Thursday, the podcast features regular people talking about eerie stuff that has happened to them. You know, spectral visitors and phantom hitchhikers and an assortment of unexplained phenomena. Some […]

Filed Under: american life, Podcasts, Writing

It could be worse.
Just ask Grant

January 10, 2018 by Dave Knadler

grant biography ron chernow history

If you’ve ever thought America is going to hell in a handbasket — and who among us hasn’t? — take a trip back to the mid-19th century and see how you like it then. That’s what I’ve been doing since the first of the year: Reading Ron Chernow’s 960-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant. I’ve learned a lot from “Grant,” but mostly this: Crises and cataclysms come […]

Filed Under: american life, Books

Judgment Day
for American swine

November 30, 2017 by Dave Knadler

trump and billy bush on the pussy tapee

The wife and I were talking about sexual harassment a couple of weeks ago. I forget which famous man was accused and fired that day; you lose track after awhile. But I do remember saying, “Jeez, who’s next, Garrison Keillor?” It was a joke. I was trying to come up with a famous person, other than Pope Francis, who would seem least likely to play the horndog […]

Filed Under: american life, Swine, thatfuckingtrump

In ‘American Vandal,’
the truth ain’t out there

November 28, 2017 by Dave Knadler

American Vandal’s serious tone is perfect satire

Filed Under: american life, television

Downward-facing decade

July 8, 2017 by Dave Knadler

phones and the mona lisa

I wonder: Has the iPhone made the world a better place, or a worse one? Always a popular subject and more in vogue this month now that the iPhone has turned 10. (Any anniversary that’s a multiple of five is red meat to pundits caught in the dog days of summer.) And so Timothy Egan and David Brooks both have nice columns on the subject in the […]

Filed Under: american life, Iphone, Tech

‘Star Trek’ saw it coming

March 7, 2017 by Dave Knadler

You run out of metaphors to explain Trump. In the shit-hits-the-fan scenario, is Trump the fan, or is he the shit? In the Hitler scenario, is Trump really Hitler, or is he Mussolini’s feckless brother Doug? In the comet-destroys-Earth scenario, is Trump the comet, or is he just a guy on his toilet, tweeting out his reactions to “Fox and Friends”? The thing about history is that […]

Filed Under: american life, politics, thatfuckingtrump, tv

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