Ryan James CarlsonSep 3, 2020Trump’s economy was a fraud even before he tanked itHow is achieving the same performance as you did before, but now using steroids instead of earning it on fundamentals, good?
Ryan James CarlsonSep 3, 2020Trump’s economy was a fraud even before he tanked itHow is achieving the same performance as you did before, but now using steroids instead of earning it on fundamentals, good?
Ryan James CarlsonAug 30, 2020Wake-up call to trump voters: your life will be worse if he winsRelationships change when a one-time event becomes a confirmed choice. Re-electing Trump will forever change or end many bonds.
Ryan James CarlsonJul 23, 2020Trump brings the old “no-go zone” lie back to AmericaMock their troubles, deny that they even have anything to complain about, and then, when their fury hits you, book them for being unruly.
Ryan James CarlsonJul 3, 2020Poem by George Washington on Trump visit to Mount RushmoreOld Mount Rushmore's mighty grand! Giant mugs survey the land. One must be BIG to get up there! It's not enough to have tall hair.
Ryan James CarlsonJun 23, 2020Scene from the United States as a mixed marriageLet's not get bogged down in racial talk as we listen to me explain why my statues of white slaveholders are staying in the front room.
Ryan James CarlsonJun 14, 2020Breaking down racism so we can get out of itThe more we recognize how racism looks and how it works, the more capable we are of dismantling it.
Ryan James CarlsonJun 8, 2020What Trump’s “race speech” will really be sayingWhite blamelessness is in conflict with justice for black people. We have to cop to our culpability to right the wrong.
Ryan James CarlsonJun 1, 2020Blasphemous fool dictator, anyone?It's hard to say what is more ludicrous – siccing the military on American citizens or Trump holding a Bible.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 29, 2020Trump, stay out of itTrump – stay out of it. People like you are the reason for these problems. Fuck off.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 27, 2020George Floyd got killed because he was blackWe white people need to start taking responsibility instead of instead of being grasping jerks in perpetual self-absolution mode.
Ryan James CarlsonJun 5, 2020Bat-swingers in the darkNo one has the “freedom” or “right” to endanger other people when they can't assess the danger they pose to others.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 13, 2020Things I'm looking forward to when Trump is goneTrump just said of Dr. Fauci: “he wants to play all sides of the equation.” Guess why, asshole: He works for a petulant baby.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 13, 2020Intimidate a turkeyIt's easy to feel a bit powerless right now. Well I just told a wild turkey to buzz off and it did – pretty damn quick too.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 2, 2020President commends gun-toting lunatics who stormed Michigan capitolIt's astonishing how much of Trumpism and white-American complicity in it – modern Republicanism – is just plain white rule.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 2, 2020For the life of meIt is technically possible to make the situation much safer – why are people not demanding this?
Ryan James CarlsonJun 5, 2020Supreme Court, eh?A rigorous standard of argumentation was the court's last technical bulwark against sheer partisan bullshit. Now we have Kavanaugh.
Ryan James CarlsonMar 30, 2016The Incomparable TrumpinhoThe incomparable Trumpinho. The game has never seen his like. He's like Eddy Merckx in soccer, or Pelé on a bike.
Ryan James CarlsonAug 20, 2019Flashback to 2016: forebodings-come-trueFlashback to just after the 2016 election: just as predicted, but worse.
Ryan James CarlsonNov 18, 2016History the judgeHistory is going to judge all of us who were here and had the chance to decide where we stand on Trump and do something about it. If...
Ryan James CarlsonAug 28, 2016Transcendent moments as a translatorSometimes as a translator you have these transcendent moments when you feel like you're one with the text, like you're really inside it....
Ryan James CarlsonApr 30, 2020So-called toilet paperI hadn't had much to complain about toilet-paper-wise. This last time, however, my fortune faltered slightly.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 2, 2020“Freedom” ain’t freedomThe right to pursue survival changes perspective entirely when the imperative switches from obtaining sustenance to avoiding peril.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 15, 2020Why is the US coronavirus response so bad?Everything we are experiencing with the coronavirus is the result of choices.
Ryan James CarlsonApr 20, 2020Why the rich do not suffer from “dependency”Why do rich people not fall into the “dependency trap” when they receive free gifts? Because the gifts never stop coming.
Ryan James CarlsonMar 17, 2016Thou shalt not “dispel with” thingsColumnists and commentators need to stop using “dispel with” (wink wink) or they'll crystallize it as a viable form.
Ryan James CarlsonMay 24, 2016Right or wrongThe Trump question is not about right or left. It's about right or wrong, and the future of the world as we know it depends on it.