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The Ted Lasso Way
Six years ago, when everything felt broken, a fictional football coach showed up with a yellow sign that said BELIEVE.
This week, watching Washington turn grievance into theater yet again, I found myself thinking about Ted Lasso, Anthony Fauci, optimism, and one line that feels especially useful right now:
“Don’t fight back. Fight forward.”
New piece: The Ted Lasso Way Continue reading
Posted in covid, Humor / satire, opinion, personal essay, Politics and Society, Trump cuts, Trump Opposition
Tagged American politics, Anthony Fauci, covid, democracy, Hope, life, Midterm Elections, politics, Rand Paul, Ted Lasso, writing
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Six Years Ago, Today
Six years ago I flew home from pandemic lockdown in Brazil believing America still knew the difference between leadership and a late-stage infomercial host with a persecution complex.
I was wrong.
A little jet lag, a little heartbreak, a little rage, and just enough dark humor to survive reading the headlines. If you’ve ever looked at the news and thought “how did we get HERE?” — this one’s for you. 🇺🇸🔥
Read before they replace the Statue of Liberty with a gold-plated grievance monument. Continue reading
Posted in covid, Humor / satire, institutional poverty, opinion, personal essay, Politics and Society, Social Media, Trump cuts
Tagged brazil, family, life, travel, writing
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The Absolut Worst
This week I had lunch with the guy who literally wrote the book on Absolut advertising. And it got me thinking: what if I pitched Absolut today?
So I did. With a little help from AI.
The results are… something. 🍸 Continue reading
Posted in culture, Humor / satire, opinion, personal essay, Politics and Society, Trump cuts, Trump Opposition
Tagged Absolut Vodka, Advertising, blog, humor, kash-patel, life, Marketing, Media, music, political commentary, politics, Pop Culture, rfk-jr, Rolling Stone, satire, travel, trump, trump-administration, writing
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America, We’ve Been Punk’d
“After two Chopin Martinis, six blue cheese stuffed olives and forty-five minutes of listening to me list the indignities perpetrated by the Trump administration this week, he turned to me and with a wicked grin said in mildly slurred speech, ‘What if this is a very elaborate episode of Punk’d.’ Imagine this…” Continue reading
Posted in culture, Humor / satire, Politics and Society, Trump Opposition
Tagged comedy, fiction, humor, life, writing
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Making Airport Lines Great Again
After 3.3 million miles, airports once meant escape and possibility. Now they feel like a monument to Trump’s ego—longer TSA lines, performative fixes, and policy driven less by competence than by the refusal to ever admit being wrong. The magic didn’t fade. It was suffocated. Continue reading
Posted in opinion, Politics and Society, Trump cuts, Trump Opposition
Tagged federal policy, government policy, Homeland Security, ICE, life, political commentary, travel, travel-tips, trump, tsa, US politics, writing
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The Butterfly and The Bloviator
Trump made a Pearl Harbor joke to the Japanese PM’s face. Hegseth declared war on religious extremism while sporting a Crusades battle-cry tattoo. Bondi’s DOJ dropped the Breonna Taylor charges. And my friend Morgan told me karma would sort it all out. This week’s post is part political autopsy, part philosophy, and ends — improbably — with a butterfly. Continue reading
How Many Donald Trumps Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?
Fear demands attention. It always has. Some express it in tears, some in anger, some in power. But laughter is the one response fear cannot survive, because it refuses to grant fear authority over the moment Continue reading
Posted in Fake News, Humor / satire, personal essay, Politics and Society, Trump Opposition
Tagged family, life, love, mental-health, politics, trump, writing
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How Many Donald Trump’s Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
A routine medical visit becomes a reflection on public life: fear, noise, and why humor may be the only response that refuses to play the same game as power. Continue reading
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Tagged family, fiction, life, love, writing
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Blame it on Rio 
Cheeto Dust
Went for a walk to clear my head. Came back with a eulogy for my cat, some inherited wisdom about fairy dust, and a working theory that Cheeto dust is its evil twin. New essay is up. 🧡🪄 Continue reading →