The Comedy of Modern Life: Conner O’Malley’s American Breakdowns

Comic Conner O’Malley caught the MAGA moment on the wing a few years ago in a series of Vines (collected here). In these six-second shots: “O’Malley — playing a deranged car-and-wealth-obsessed man — would pull up to befuddled Manhattan businessmen in sports cars, scream guttural praise for their public display of opulence, and then bike away before they knew what hit them.”

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Letter from the Coast

Hey B, absolutely been hitting the streets. Here in Oakland the pigs and our pig-accomplice mayor are not fucking around. But it’s being led by kids and tutored by the elder generations (and I like adjusting to being an elder), we got such a tradition here.

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Search for a Method (Vote by Phone)

Many years ago Buckminster Fuller, one of the greatest thinkers, engineers, and observers of life in all its micro and macro forms, suggested that democracy could be expressed more efficiently if people were allowed to vote by phone.

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Letter From Mississippi

Hey Y’all,

Like most of y’all, my wife, Monica, is livid about the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police Officer.  Moreover, she is perplexed by my seeming lack of concern.  She can’t understand why I’m not as outwardly angry as everyone else as she walks around the house, givin’ me that scolding black woman side-eye.

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Letter from Charlie

Your editor passed on C. Leigh McInnes’ “Letter” to Charles Keil, who has long grasped imperatives of African American nationists. Keil responded with his own letter…

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