Charles Bursell Presents

Offerings like "Don't Look Up" present a cheap veneer of progressivism while protecting the corporate status quo. www.charlesbursell.com

Remembering notable artists and newsmakers who have passed is a valuable annual exercise. This year's lessons: 1) be passionate, 2) share your passion. www.charlesbursell.com

Annie Live, Get Back reviewed, and fighting the soft bigotry of social media   www.charlesbursell.com

Are flash mob robberies and the great resignation subconscious revolts against Capitalism? www.charlesbursell.com

Abolish money, borders, prisons, and political parties! Abolitionists are openly fighting to end outdated and deadly institutions. www.charlesbursell.com

Everything old is new again re Covid, resisting the resistance, misplaced confidence, and making America dummy-proof. www.charlesbursell.com

Claiming the license of "humor" does not give free rein to be misogynistic (or otherwise terrible). www.charlesbursell.com

Male violence, shielded by white suburban conclaves, needs to be cut out from the root. www.charlesbursell.com

Calling out cultural theft, reigning in racist language, and sidelining sexism are not "woke-ism," they are legitimate historical resets. www.charlesbursell.com

I guested on 'Drive Time' with Martin Hallanger on Riverwest Radio, WXRW, Milwaukee, to comment on the Rittenhouse verdict. Here's an extended excerpt. www.charlesbursell.com  

If men are required to register with Selective Service should women? Yes. Is the US military budget obscenely high? Also, yes. www.charlesbursell.com

High inflation, though currently real, is being inflated into yet another Big Lie by the Republicans (and Joe Manchin). www.charlesbursell.com

New research confirms The Log's election strategy. Also, does the new infrastructure law contribute to the Climate Crisis? www.charlesbursell.com

Watch (or re-watch) "My Dinner with Andre" and Cecily Strong's "Goober the Clown." You'll be a better person for it. www.charlesbursell.com

Reclaiming Armistice Day as a national call for world peace. www.charlesbursell.com

How a Coalition of Independents can overtake the American two party system and send it to extinction. www.charlesbursell.com

The impossible maze of legalese confounding justice, and only pathetic losers still use the word "woke" as an insult. www.charlesbursell.com

Covid rebel Aaron Rodgers is an arrogant idiot. Public School protesters are just as dumb.   www.charlesbursell.com

Democrats need to fight for their policies with urgent, righteous anger or lose future elections – either to Republicans or to an Independent Left. www.charlesbursell.com

Existential malaise keeping you down? Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant may offer a workable solution. www.charlesbursell.com

Being a so-called "creative" doesn't give you a pass. Many are hired guns for corporate greed, social ills, and environmental degradation. www.charlesbursell.com

Is something blocking you from performing the fundamental tasks of your job (or your life)? We're all susceptible to "the yips."  Also, Ted Lasso isn't worth it.   www.charlesbursell.com

The high-tech Van Gogh attractions barnstorming the nation are kitschy, exploitive carnival sideshows. Also, what Americans get wrong about housing. www.charlesbursell.com

Don't like politics? Afraid of Socialism? You'll have to get over both, because they're our only way out of the mess we're in. www.charlesbursell.com

Climate and pandemic emergencies are existential crises that require radical changes to how we engage with the world. Can we muster the wisdom and will to save ourselves? www.charlesbursell.com