JStWe’re In This Together NowWhen the offer came down several weeks ago to return to one of my most beloved venues on Earth, Saint Vitus Bar, to play live music for the…Sep 7, 2021Sep 7, 2021
JStRichard Dawkins Is AwfulIn a turn every bit as nostalgic as the rebirth of blue hair and Doc Martens as Gen Z aesthetic, the other day Salon posted a “New Atheists…Jun 7, 2021Jun 7, 2021
JStDanzig is RightResponse to Glenn Danzig’s recent comments that punk as he knew it couldn’t have happened today because of woke cancellation has been…May 3, 2021May 3, 2021
JStTrumpism Is A Coherent Ideology (PART 1)“Trump and the modern GOP don’t have policies, it’s just improvisation, shitposting and culture war grievance.” This line became so…Mar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021
JStThe Only True RedpillReading Twitter is a nightmare every single day. Plenty of people would agree, but perhaps not for the reason I would give. What I find…Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
JStThe Nuclear Option: How The Guilt-For-Profit Industry Will Destroy Us AllTry the following experiment: think of a value that you consider important. It’s a moral virtue, therefore it’s a political good. Now…Feb 10, 2021Feb 10, 2021
JStWhat Another Smashed Guitar Says About Social Media PoliticsThere is a counterintuitively important political dimension to the preoccupation with triviality. When energy and resources, like the now…Feb 7, 2021Feb 7, 2021
JStANTISOCIAL: More Thoughts on Counterculture and the New Right (PART 3)If it isn’t obvious by now, my accounting of counterculture throughout these posts treads very close to the mainstream. The reason for…Feb 6, 2021Feb 6, 2021
JStANTISOCIAL: More Thoughts on Counterculture and the New Right (PART 2)With the emergence of the social web and the newsfeed in around 2006/7 and the election of Barack Obama, there was a widespread sense…Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021