The fatal flaw of thoughtleadership is that it’s a one-way, top-down dispensary of opinion. That’s why I prefer to call it thinkshitting than thoughtleading. That’s why instead of writing a blog entry about why I think The West Wing broke liberals’ brains and warped forever their conception of political theatre, I wanted to ask a shit ton of other people all at once what they think. Which is a thing I can do at any time because of nightmare circus box of the internet.

Here’s a ridiculous idea to fuck with: what if Bernie Sanders, champion of the working class, actually paid his canvassers in 2020? Before you jerk your knees in protest and insist that canvassing is a civic duty and that anyone who loves Bernie Sanders should be honored to do it…

In 2008, I voted for Barack Obama in the Democratic Primary. I was excited then. …

Let me propose something absolutely ridiculous: let’s abolish the Presidency in 2020. Instead of wasting the next 21 months of our lives reliving the absurd carnival of 2016, let’s just abolish the Presidency. I mean, yes, I totally understand that this would require us to effectively scrap the Constitution and…

In 2025, while the oceans are boiling, we’ll be plugged into the Nirvana interface, unadulterated, prestige consciousness, our enlightenment crowd-sourced and machine-learnt, so many designer realities, curated by the world’s leading experts of living in artificiality. By 2022, polar bears will be extinct but someone, somewhere, will program a VR…

How have there been so many who have seen The Shawshank Redemption and not have come away from it believing that prison should be abolished? How can so many people finish Harry Potter and think Voldemort was the bad guy and not the totalizing inequity of the wizardry world? According to every dating website that exists, The Shawshank Redemption is every straight white guy’s favorite movie and yet I don’t see that many straight white guys at the abolitionist meetings.

Every homeless person who freezes to death tonight on a sidewalk will be a bipartisan effort. Medical bankruptcy is the Democrats and Republicans reaching across the aisle and agreeing to do absolutely nothing. Every school shooting is a bipartisan school shooting. Every broken pipeline is a bipartisan pipeline. Every oil spill has been a bipartisan oil spill. Every bullet a cop has ever sent into the body of a Black child has been a bipartisan bullet.

Find your seat. Relax your hands, back and shoulders. Release any stiffness you’ve built up in your neck and jaw. Bring awareness to any tension you might store in the tiny muscles your face, around your mouth, your eyes. Breathe in. Let it go. Take a deep breath. Notice the…

Rarely are women given license to express righteous anger. Even if the catalyst for a woman’s anger is viewed by many as valid (child murder, genocide, sexual assault, etcetera), she will only ever really be afforded as much license for expressing anger as those around her will grant her. And…