There are few artists that can balance irony and sincerity so beautifully as Ophuls. His style is not just empty gestures, but a complex expression of fluctuating emotions, fate, and the impact of time on human beings. Really, one of the finest artists of the past century.

You’re welcome! Please write more books.

Just to let you know you’ve got some fans out there: a patient loved your book, told me about it, I also loved your book and told my analyst about, and she loved it too!

Gone with the Pope
Imitation of Pope
Popes and Whispers
Citizen Pope (or Pope Kane)
Full Metal Pope

Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University Last April, I got an email from a faculty member at Sweet Briar College, a small women’s college in rural Virginia. The college was preparing to choose its Common Read for the following academic ye…

I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

I just feel bad for the Onion.

From San Francisco!

It would be more tragic if it weren’t so stupid and cruel.

Well said, but really sad it’s coming to this.

I read this coincidentally right before visiting Roatan in Honduras where the locals gave me an earful of exactly what you describe in the book.

I really loved this book! The last chapter was like a gut punch (in a good way).

Chuck Schumer

I don’t, understand what, you mean.

Didn’t he actually say something like this? I swear, The Onion has the hardest job In journalism!

It’s Freud’s, but Melanie Klein is more appropriate to describe the destructively psychotic acts being perpetuated by our fearless leaders.

Enough! This Bullshit Has to End

I wrote about the Free Press's shameful decision to publish Hanania's apologia for Nazi salutes www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough

If you’ve talked to enough fraud victims, you’ll find a surprisingly high % refuse to admit they’ve been defrauded even as the refusal compounds the harm
The new admin is populated with experienced fraud actors
The people voting, donating, defending, and buying branded merch are self-deluded marks

As an antidote to the chaos, here’s a pic of Olivia looking serene.

Also, these two underrated gems

Some tried to claim Leni Riefenstahl as great but then Susan Sontag demolished her in Fascinating Fascism.

I’ll never forget seeing My Darling Clementine for the first time as a teenager and marveling how a director could make a slow walk through a town so riveting