ReCreational
re-creation
Offering semi-regular, occasionally coherent commentary about social and political matters.
The perspective is unabashedly, uncompromisingly, unapologetically, and unstrategically leftist.
The mode of discourse will usually be irony-laden sarcasm mixed with outraged polemics. Sorry.
Posts
(when I get around to them)
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Kennedy Center to Award Bill Maher the Mark Twain Prize
The Trump-era Kennedy Center is awarding Bill Maher the Mark Twain Prize. A Temu Auteur who confuses vocal fry with gravitas is being honored for the author of Huckleberry Finn. Twain eviscerated the powerful. Maher eviscerates college kids and calls it bravery. Mark Twain, were he alive, would have material for a decade.
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Dustbowl 2026
In “Dustbowl 2026,” American democracy resembles those Oklahoma thunderstorms that rage but never rain—all noise, no delivery. While we watch cable panels scream and elections come and go, the real story unfolded quietly: fifty years of conservative institution-building, from the Powell Memorandum to Project 2025. The irrigation system is built for elite control. The fields…
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Iran and the Politics of the Permanent Enemy, Part 2
The United States is bombing Iran again, despite recently declaring the nuclear threat “obliterated.” This essay refuses to normalize the contradiction, the amnesia, or the double standard that treats Israeli theology as politics and Iranian strategy as pathology. It demands coherence from officials and memory from citizens—and calls the refusal patriotism.