Clear Skies Only: Everyone quotes the first two lines of the Serenity Prayer. The entire thing runs on the third. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/clear-s…


Hubristic Pity: The Compassion of Status-Seekers: Noblesse oblige needs a noble and an oblige. The neo-nobility kept the first word and dropped the second. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/hubrist…


Lupita Nyong’o is easily more than beautiful enough to be Helen of Troy.


The Making an Example Of Deterrence was never supposed to be universal. That’s what makes it work. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-mak…


The Camera Doesn’t Take Sides, But It Isn’t Blind Either Total transparency ended every performance at once. It just didn’t end them equally. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-cam…


“But Nobody Gave Me the Instruction Manual!” The rulebook is real, unwritten, and enforced against you whether you ever saw it or not chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-…


The Sporting Fallacy

Why “it was good while it lasted” beats “no way, piggy” every single time. open.substack.com/pub/chris…



How did I miss this banger?


The Right has always loved the star spangled banner and “white supremacy” has expanded to every flag-lover

“…there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy…” www.irishstar.com/culture/e…


The Barbecue Always Wins

How the 250th slipped out of NPR’s hands, and why nobody but me seems to have wanted it there in the first place open.substack.com/pub/chris…


The Envy Machine

Why the crab bucket always wins, and why nobody escapes it by flattening the bucket open.substack.com/pub/chris…


So good. Reality is basically SETI@Home

The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside pca.st/episode/7…


Here’s my most recent diagnosis.


Glad America doesn’t have a glass jaw

The 4th of July stress test wasn’t about violence. It was about whether the First Amendment still has teeth. open.substack.com/pub/chris…



Waka waka I guess the SPLC spent quite a lot of it’s members' donations on white supremacists today! Waka waka ;) www.politico.com/news/2026…


Whimsy Beats Hypergamy

On looksmaxxing, mogging, and why being someone’s ride or die beats being anyone’s stat sheet open.substack.com/pub/chris…


I feel like MAGA has disavowed Donald Trump après Iran attacks. Only neocons and America First zealots support the President now—and for months.


The Nail That Stands

What a Honolulu hallway taught me about every hierarchy I’ve stood inside since open.substack.com/pub/chris…