There is a moment in One Piece, one of the most beloved manga and anime series ever created, where a young rubber-bodied pirate named Monkey D. Luffy does something that makes every person watching drop their jaw simultaneously in horror and absolute euphoria. He punches a Celestial Dragon. For the uninitiated, Celestial Dragons are essentiallyContinue reading “The Fat Kid in the Brown Hoodie Is The Most Unintentionally Based Person of 2026, and I Will Die on This Hill”
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No War With Iran. I Said It Then, I’ll Say It Again.
I remember sitting down in 2020 and writing something that felt urgent, something that felt necessary, something that felt like screaming into a void that was somehow also screaming back at me. It was the first term of Donald Trump’s presidency, and the United States had just assassinated Qasem Soleimani, one of Iran’s most powerfulContinue reading “No War With Iran. I Said It Then, I’ll Say It Again.”
The Nobel Peace Prize Needs to Go the Way of the Dodo in 2026
In the year 2026, the Nobel Peace Prize, that once-esteemed symbol of humanity’s greatest efforts for peace and diplomacy, has been reduced to a farce. The award, meant to honor those who work tirelessly to further the cause of peace, is now hopelessly compromised by politics, imperialism, and contradictions. We are witnessing an absurd spectacleContinue reading “The Nobel Peace Prize Needs to Go the Way of the Dodo in 2026”