Nice Guys Never Are
Why the word you’re afraid of being called and the word you actually want mean opposite things open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The FUBU Face
Why seeing what women actually say to each other didn’t make dating more honest—it made it impossible open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Protected Species
They call it a “protected class.” Critics have started calling it something else: a “protected species.” That jab isn’t a joke—it’s the whole argument. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Empathy Loyalty Test
The Economist thinks the right hates a feeling. What it actually hates is a shibboleth. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Terrarium
Why New York is the only American city where the most regressive men and the most liberated women share the same six feet of sidewalk open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Saw the skit. Reprehensible. Was this skit from 1960? > ‘Seinfeld’ star Jason Alexander apologized for an inappropriate sketch with 17-year-old married Courtney Stodden.https://people.com/jason-alexander-apologizes-for-inappropriate-funny-or-die-sketch-with-teen-courtney-stodden-12024419
Femme Formidable Sunny Ray, the Hors-Flesh, and the Body That Won’t Stay Still
She built an audience on an engineered body, then started defacing it on purpose—and the internet still can’t decide which version to believe. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
They could have just fired the designerly-AF glasses. They always have them. I had them when I was designerly as well.
Cracker Barrel Chief Executive Who Oversaw Logo Change Steps Down: Julie Masino faced backlash online when the company tried to shed its old-timey image. David Deno, a former chief of Bloomin’ Brands, will take over. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/2…
“The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic” —Joseph Stalin> Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accountinghttps://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/politics/iran-war-casualties
Fair Enough
The word doing all the work in “fair enough” is “enough.” open.substack.com/pub/chris…
“Very Silly”
AOC said the thing. She said the thing. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Disclosure Day drips with Hitchcock’s color-era DNA—Kodak-saturated frames, patient blocking, dread built through composition not noise. Haven’t finished it yet, but 30 years of Art Bell primed me for this one. It’s already one of the most visually compelling disclosure narratives put to film.
The Diorama Builds Itself
A cartoon about the year 2300 is actually a museum exhibit under construction right now, by the same kind of person who built all the ones we’ve since apologized for open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Praying With Your Fists Up
Punching down was supposed to mean punching the powerless. Follow the rule far enough and it turns out to be a religion instead open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Nothing Comes In or Out
On toil, Etsy, and why every disruptor eventually becomes the guild it once broke open.substack.com/pub/chris…
I had no clue that John passed away on the day I randomly posted a No Agenda Show primer. Quelle coïncidence. Crazy.
Push The Button, Chucklehead open.substack.com/pub/chris…
I’ve been watching No Agenda since 2008—and I’m a Knight—and I just discovered that my beloved John C Dvorak passed away days ago. Live on the show. Right now. Love you, Brother. Miss you already.
If you really do want full acceptance, try not being such an insufferable dick all the time to everyone.
The #DSA Isn’t Confused. It’s Correcting.
Give them this much: they figured out what went wrong, and they fixed it. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Simple: yank all federal funding: “Republicans in House DOGE subcommittee excoriate a Smithsonian administrator” www.npr.org/2026/07/2…