Politics & Society
Who the Hell Is Cornhusker Majority?
A Nebraska political mailer led me to the money, claims, and people behind Cornhusker Majority.
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Humor & Culture
Rants, repairs, and realness. By Christopher Moore.
77 pieces
Life & Belief
Creation? Intelligent Design?
An atheist electrician follows the power behind life and consciousness, then asks what a circuit diagram cannot explain.
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Politics & Society
The Founders Never Asked Us to Stop Thinking
Jefferson wanted to tear the engine down every nineteen years. Madison wanted to make sure nobody threw a wrench through the block every time they got frustrated. The…
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Politics & Society
The Curious Case of Senator Mark Kelly and Whiskey Pete Hegseth
The Uniform Code of Military Justice applies to active-duty service members and reservists. It is enforced with enthusiasm. It also technically applies to retired…
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Politics & Society
The Machiavellian States of America: Not Sun Tzu. Machiavelli.
Everyone loves to quote The Art of War when they talk about American politics. Sounds smart. Ancient. Noble. Wrong book.
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Humor & Culture
Fake Spring in Nebraska
Sunday in Nebraska. It’s 64 degrees. The sun is shining. There’s a light breeze. And every single one of us is acting like we just signed a peace treaty with winter.
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Politics & Society
Polarization: A Mechanical Failure
A driveline doesn’t explode because it “woke up angry” one day. It explodes because somebody ignored geometry… then ignored vibration… then ignored heat… then ignored…
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Shop & Working Life
Torque Over Talk
There are two professions on this planet that claim to be in the truth business. Lawyers. And diagnostic mechanics.
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Politics & Society
Belonging Is Not a Virtue
I’ve never trusted ass kissers. You can spot them easy. Their neck is permanently bent at a 47 degree angle and their entire personality smells like shoe polish.
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Life & Belief
Football, the Only Religion That Never Left Me
Football isn’t just a game to me. It isn’t a hobby. It isn’t something I casually watch on Sundays. Football is a constant. A ritual. A calendar that kept turning even…
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Politics & Society
“AMNESTY”
On todays episode of “Words are Important” we discuss “AMNESTY” 👻😱
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Life & Belief
Quarter Century for The Corps
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a few stubborn bastards sat in a smoky Philadelphia tavern and decided to make history.
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Politics & Society
The Ballrooms That Bind Us: How a $300 Million Dance Floor Will Save America
Critics are whining that maybe $300 million could’ve gone to housing, hospitals, or mental health. But no, no, no. That’s small-minded thinking. This is trickle-down…
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Politics & Society
The MAGA Continental Army
It began, as all great American tragedies do, with a press conference.
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Humor & Culture
The Emperor’s Shih Tzus
In the Celestial Kingdom of Han-Yi, during the Age When No One Dared to Look the Emperor in the Eye, two beings held more power than all the ministers, generals, and…
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Shop & Working Life
Go Gen Z: The System Didn’t See This Coming
See, what happened was — contrary to popular belief — the “next generation” didn’t get dumber. Nope. They just kept getting smarter. Much smarter, even while parents got…
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Politics & Society
The Media: Gasoline on a Grease Fire
Fox News will scare you into thinking the left is handing out gender-fluid assault rifles to kindergartners. MSNBC will have you convinced that Republicans are plotting…
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Politics & Society
Gun-Toting, Tree-Hugging Real Talk
Most of us just want common sense. We want our rights, our freedom, and our planet to still be here when our kids grow up.
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Politics & Society
The Epstein Files Didn’t Expose a Client List. They Exposed Something Worse.
…the law and reality have never been the same thing. They overlap sometimes. But they are not twins. They are barely cousins. The law requires proof beyond a reasonable…
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Politics & Society
ICE and the Stanford Experiment
A film about the Stanford prison experiment prompts a harder question about power, institutions, and what happens when people stop seeing each other as human.
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Life & Belief
The War That Rewired Our Brains
A Marine veteran examines toxic exposure, mental health, and the long effects of Operation Iraqi Freedom on the people who served.
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Life & Belief
The Pussification of the American Man
The truth is, masculinity isn’t toxic. Weakness disguised as morality is. A real man doesn’t dominate others, he disciplines himself. But the culture doesn’t teach that…
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Politics & Society
Words Are Important
Most political arguments in America sound like two drunk dudes screaming at each other with a half-remembered Wikipedia entry as their ammo. Everyone’s yelling…
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Politics & Society
The World You’re Trying to Fix Is Already Dead
We live in a different beast now. A beast that doesn’t care about your nostalgia, your traditions, or your daddy’s “work hard and you’ll be fine” advice. The rules…
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Politics & Society
The Left Cries, The Right Lies, The Rest of Us Work
Liberals throw tantrums in public. Conservatives throw them in private while pretending to be stoic patriots. Two sides of the same toxic coin. Both love the drama. Both…
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Politics & Society
September 11, 2001 – The Day We Forgot
We swore we would never forget. Every year we say it. We post the pictures, we share the memories, we fly the flags at half mast. But I think deep down we already did.…
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Shop & Working Life
Freight’s Blame Game: It’s Not the Immigrant Behind the Wheel—It’s the CEO’s and Systems That Put Him There
Immigrants didn’t build the crash machine. Freight corporations did—by under-training, under-paying, over-scheduling, and topped with cooperate greed. They turn…
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Politics & Society
The Kennedy Crisis: When Public Health Becomes a Punchline
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sitting in the biggest health seat in America, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the country is learning the hard way what happens…
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Politics & Society
Do You Really Know About Homelessness in America? Because Honestly, I Don’t Think You Do.
Everybody’s got a hot take on homelessness. Politicians use it as a campaign prop, news anchors read numbers like lotto results, and your cousin swears he’s got the…
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Shop & Working Life
The Bridge Generation
No disrespect, but we just have a better understanding of the world than you do. IYKYN
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Humor & Culture
When Disaster Strikes: Let the Cats Figure It Out
The other night, my girl and I were watching one of those disaster documentaries—you know the type. Tornadoes, hurricanes, “bomb cyclones” (which honestly sounds like…
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Life & Belief
Entry Six – Am I Obsessed or Just Pissed Off? : A Realistic Sanity Check
I’ve developed this habit of running “sanity checks” on myself. It’s something I picked up in the Marines, reinforced in therapy, and polished in fatherhood.
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Politics & Society
What if the United States is helping commit genocide?
Not “what if” as in tin-foil hat. “What if” as in: match the facts on the ground with the law on paper, and then look at what Washington is doing while those facts pile…
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Politics & Society
The Truth About Welfare
This one’s a political piñata every election cycle — easily top five debate topics — not because people care to understand it, but because too many have been trained to…
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Life & Belief
The Poker Game of Life
Life’s like poker, except the house cheats, the dealer’s on meth, and the pit boss is God — and he’s in a mood.
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Politics & Society
We the People
We the People want to get along. And guess what? For the most part, we do. We never stopped.
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Life & Belief
Beautiful Failure
If I had a dime for every time I screwed up, I’d have retired years ago—probably on some beach, sipping something fruity, telling people I’m “self-employed” when really…
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Shop & Working Life
The Boxer Retirement Plan: Work Until You Drop, So the Rich Can Rest Easier
Meet Boxer, the workhorse from Animal Farm. His answer to every problem? “I will work harder.” And the pigs loved him for it—right up until they sent him to the glue…
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Politics & Society
Canada Shows Up – And Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Different Buddy
I’m an American and a South Park fan, so yeah—I’ve laughed at plenty of Canadian jokes and cracked a few myself. But here’s the truth: Terrance and Philip are way cooler…
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Humor & Culture
Help! I Can Fix Almost Anything, But Gen Z Slang Broke My Brain
One morning, I walked into the kitchen and proudly announced, “Peep my drip, fam. I’m slaying this dad look, no cap.”
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Politics & Society
We’ve All Been Brainwashed
Yes, you. Yes, me. Nobody dodged it. And if your first thought is “Not me”—then congratulations, you’re the most cooked of us all.
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Politics & Society
Tariffs Are Great! (MAGA’s Inability to See Outside of Their Box)
If your whole trade policy fits on a red hat, it’s not a strategy — it’s marketing.
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Life & Belief
Entry Five – Breaking the Cycle: Addiction, Self-Awareness, and Rewiring Your Meat Sponge
With time and practice, you can overwrite that mental malware. That’s not motivational fluff. That’s neuroscience.
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Politics & Society
The 9th Amendment: The One They Don’t Want You to Know About
The 9th Amendment doesn’t grant you rights. It reminds you that you never needed anyone’s approval in the first place.
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Humor & Culture
“You’re in a Laundry Room” – A Breakdown of Kurt Cobain’s Posthumous Poetry
Kurt wasn’t writing a song. He was writing a trap. A warning. A mirror.
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Life & Belief
Entry 4 – Dear Woman Reading This: Here’s What Your Man Can’t Say Out Loud
He ain’t cold. He ain’t heartless. He ain’t fine — no matter how many times he says it.
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Life & Belief
Fantasy Football Is Back — And Just in Time to Save Me From a Full Mental Spiral
We joke. We talk trash. We bet wings and cash and our reputations. But fantasy football is spiritual glue.
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Humor & Culture
The Los Angeles Chargers: A Love Story Written by Lucifer Himself
You’d think by now they’d have learned — but no. Every damn year they show up like it’s a fresh start, like she’s changed.
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Politics & Society
Food For Thought: Is Capitalism Just a Fancy Word for Exploitation?
When the profits come first and people come last — that’s exploitation. When the rich write the rules and the poor eat the fallout — that’s exploitation. When the…
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Shop & Working Life
20 Lies Told to Me by Boomers When I Was in School
Maybe it’s time we stop letting people who still forward chain emails make decisions about education.
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Humor & Culture
Ozzy Osbourne: The Madman Who Made Metal Matter
Ozzy is dead. Long live Ozzy.
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Politics & Society
The Great Nebraska Weed Blockage Part Two: The People Legalized It. The State Neutered It. The Omaha Tribe Lit the Damn Torch.
That’s right: Legal to treat your pain. Illegal to keep your job.
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Politics & Society
Trump, Murdoch, and the Billion-Dollar Boob Drawing
But either way—one of these rich dudes is about to get slapped with a legal bill bigger than most small nations’ GDP. And that, my friends, is the only part of this mess…
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Humor & Culture
What’s Worse: Cheating on Your Spouse… or Being a Coldplay Fan?
Cheating can be forgiven. But Coldplay? That sticks to your soul like Axe body spray and bad credit.
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Life & Belief
Entry Three: What Absolutely Does Not Work
If you half-ass it, you’re gonna get your ass whooped. But if you show up and go to war? You just might win.
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Politics & Society
Trump Promised a Revolution. All We Got Was a Rerun of the Same Con.
You can’t executive-order your way out of every problem. And you can’t run a country like it’s a reality show—because real people live here. We’re hurting. We’re broke.…
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Politics & Society
The Epstein Files: A Masterclass in “Totally Trustworthy Justice” and Other Fairy Tales
This whole mess smells like a cover-up wrapped in a press release, buried under 50 pounds of redacted paperwork, and stamped “CASE CLOSED” by the same folks who were…
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Life & Belief
Entry Two: My Brain Has Trust Issues… With Reality
I’ve carried both rational and irrational fears most of my life, and the bitch of it is—they wear the same damn face.
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Life & Belief
Entry One: The Warld Today
I don’t know if it’s burnout, a midlife crisis, or just the weight of 30+ years of being the “reliable one” finally cracking something inside me.
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Humor & Culture
A Modest Proposal for the Restoration of Dueling: Because Some People Deserve a Glove to the Face
In these trying times of keyboard warriors, chronic disrespect, and the pathological overuse of the phrase “speak your truth,” I propose a simple, elegant, and…
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Shop & Working Life
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Grid
The lights don’t care how you vote. Neither does your server, your fridge, or your Tesla
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Politics & Society
The Bipartisan Circus Part Two: America’s Most Ignored Best Seller
The Constitution. America’s most quoted, least read, most tattooed document. People love to thump it, wave it around, print it on T-shirts, and tattoo bald eagles over…
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Life & Belief
The Math Just Doesn’t Work: Why I Can’t Take Religion Seriously
The books aren’t the problem. The people are. All three preach: Love your neighbor. Take care of the weak. Don’t be greedy. Respect your Creator.
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Politics & Society
The Big Beautiful Bill: A Bulldozer or a Band-Aid?
Supporters say it’s about cutting red tape, boosting paychecks, and getting people back to work. Critics say it’s about cutting lifelines, stuffing the pockets of the…
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Humor & Culture
Google Gemini: The Ultimate Hoe of the AI Streets
Let’s talk about Google Gemini. Yeah, that one. The AI that walked onto the scene like it owned the block, but really, it’s just out here hoeing in broad daylight.
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Politics & Society
Red vs. Blue: The World’s Most Pointless Game Show
By Christopher Moore Welcome to America’s favorite reality show: Red vs. Blue. It’s like a game show, except nobody wins and the prize is usually a tax hike. Every…
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Politics & Society
The Bipartisan Circus Part One: Republicans, Democrats, and Other Dangerous Animals
Both sides act like mortal enemies on TV. But when the cameras turn off, they’re in the same cigar lounge, high-fiving over the trillion-dollar debt they just sold your…
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Humor & Culture
Me and My GoatGuns: The Tiny Arsenal That Took Over My Damn Life
I’m not saying I have a problem. I’m just saying the square footage of my home might need to be reassessed.
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Politics & Society
What If the US Bombing Iran Was Staged?
This isn’t about tinfoil hats. It’s about patterns.
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Humor & Culture
I Miss Football. And I Know I’m Not Alone.
Football isn’t just a sport. It’s the glue that holds my week together.
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Politics & Society
The Two-Party Scam: How Republicans and Democrats Hijacked the Constitution
The Republicans aren’t the answer. The Democrats aren’t the answer. The Constitution is the answer.
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Politics & Society
The Great Nebraska Weed Blockade: When Politicians Think They’re Smarter Than Voters
Nebraska voters—the people—did something almost no one in America is doing. We actually agreed on something.
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Shop & Working Life
AI: The Tidal Wave We’re Pretending is a Ripple
We’ve seen this movie: People feared the printing press. They feared electricity. They feared the internet. Spoiler alert: None of it stopped the train.
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Shop & Working Life
Every Time Communication Evolved, People Lost Their Minds: A Rant on New Ways to Talk
We’ve been on this hamster wheel since the beginning. Let’s walk it back.
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Life & Belief
When War Comes Full Circle
This isn’t about being unpatriotic. It’s about never letting another generation walk into war with blindfolds on.
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Humor & Culture
The Death of Satire: Please Send Thoughts, Prayers, and Unsubscribes
It is my solemn duty to inform you that satire has died. Please lower your phones to half-brightness in respect.
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Humor & Culture
The People’s History: Music Tells the Truth They Don’t Put in Books
Real truth isn’t in some government-approved textbook. It’s in the music.
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