Understanding Libertarianism in the Current Moment
This is not about every libertarian. However, the basic tenets of libertarianism draw some people with poor social impulses and instincts.
Author: Bryan O'Nolan
New Hampshire’s First in the Nation Primary Is Good for Everyone
It stems from two ideas: that New Hampshire is not diverse and that New Hampshire is too small. Both statements are ludicrous.
The Time Bryan O’Nolan Met Mike Pence at a Foreign Policy Event
When Mike Pence turned to shake my hand Saturday morning in New Hampshire, one of the most absurd events in my life began to unfold.
Cryptocurrencies, Explained
Cryptocurrencies, Explained: Arboreal mastication of the liminal turophilic angstrom usually results in–your mileage may vary!–platonic lucre
The Time Mike Pence Tried to Make Scottishness Great Again
The following is fiction. As far as we know, the real Mike Pence is not, in fact, the “laddie from Dunedin” or Chieftan of Clan MacPence
Boston Poe: “Tha Ravin” by Edgah Allinpoe
Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston. So, “The Raven” in a transliterated mock Boston accent in thrilling Standard Definition video
“Working-Class Wannabes” and the Language of Sports
Sports fans have a tendency to code-switch into the appropriate sports dialect when talking about the various sports people play or consume.
The Time Booper and I Lost Mike Pence’s Children at the County Fair
This story is fictional. To the best of our knowledge, the real Mike Pence did not chase a bunch of carnies down in an autogyro.
Why Mike Pence Will No Longer Allow Booper or Me to Help Him Campaign
This story is entirely fictional. To our knowledge, the real Mike Pence has never had any run-ins with Augustus Cobbledick.
The Joys of Collective Failure
In fairness, not all collective failures are like the stock photos above, however.Sometimes there are systems involved that encourage collective failure.
The 3/5th Compromise & James Madison’s Crystal Flute
“I’m Founding Father Ben Franklin, and I’ve got a friend named James Madison who wants you to make him a flute out of this mysterious crystal skull that he had stolen from some innocent BIPOC in Peru.”
The 2019 Project: A Manifesto On Humor
These folks are united in their humorless worldview. What better way to counter this trend, then, but with humor.
The 2nd Amendment and John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones goes, “Dude, I am going to get all up in the grill of British merchant shipping in the English Channel.” He’s stoked.
Glorious Violence: How to Prepare and Deconstruct 19th Century Poverty Food
Apocryphal stories of Maine prisoners and John Adams aside, the very real fact that lobster was, until relatively recently, a poverty food.
Booper McCarthy and the Unquiet Shade of Salubrity Prescott
Oddly enough, the house was never really his. His wife, a lady called Salubrity Prescott, had just begun to build the house when the supposed doctor met his end.
Where Waldo Was: A Booper and Bryan Misadventure Featuring Mike Pence
In the last week you traveled to the 1920s, met a wizard and inspired Mike Pence to curse and this is where you refuse to suspend disbelief?
From Piles to Paradise: Mitt Romney’s Sea Misadventure with Bryan & Booper
As far as Mitt Romney is concerned, this tale contains observations of an anatomical nature which are, if not indecent, entirely fictional.
Talisk: More Than Just a Scottish Folk Trio
Talisk isn’t just your usual neighborhood acoustic Scottish folk trio, all jigs and reels and hornpipes, no
Concerning Proposals To Place Cameras In School Classrooms
Putting cameras in school classrooms is absurd, backward, counterproductive and just the sort of thing the very proponents would decry as nigh communism were it proposed by their political enemies
History and Literature’s Complaint Against a Modern: A J.K Rowling Poem
Would Steinbeck’s Grapes have passed this Rowling Test? Or George & Lenny’s discov’ry that the best Laid plans of mice & men gang aft agley?
