Parthian Shot

In this podcast, I explore what exactly it is Pete Hegseth believes and what he is trying to do, and why you should be trying to do everything you can to stop him. But for example, there is just way too much in common between the thinking of Pete Hegseth and another guy with a Norwegian name—Anders Behring Breivik. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe

This is not really an official podcast. It is a poetry break. And make whatever you want of the alleged or imagined difference. It is just a poem plus some comments on the hard political reality. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe

What kind of Nazi is Elon Musk. Just a cosplay swaggerer, seeking tech-nazi cred with his Junior Injustice League incels? Or is Elon Musk more like the kind that totally gets and supports the underlying assumptions of the German political party, AfD? That is what this podcast seeks to answer. Listen and learn. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe

A look at the insane energy policy of Donald Trump, as he revealed in executive orders yesterday, showing among other things his love of coal. Yep, with Trump in charge, the skies will fill with filth, the atmosphere will clog up with even more carbon, the climate will spike with heat, and the weather will burn and drown like it has never done before. You voted for it. Now you and your kids will g...

I discuss the Trump-Hitler doctrine, or Trump's foreign policy. Whether it is a joke or not, it is a further effort by Trump to normalize fascism and criminal conduct on the part of the USA, like the USA needs any more help on that count. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe

Time for the 10th episode of the Parthian Shot podcast. Yay! Too bad it is about such a dreadful topic. And too bad I am so unkind, because I don’t care about anybody’s feelings. Y’all chose this. And the Pillar of Severity and Sarcasm is what you rate. But you know, if you were a good person you woulda subscribed a long time ago. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subsc...

Well, it’s Sunday, so we had to have a sermon about Zion and trumpets and complaining to the manager because where the hell is God anyway? And also, did you know Jimmy Carter said he was gonna make America great again long before Donald Trump said that? It is never a good sign when some asshole running for president or acting as president tells you he’s gonna make America great again. Because eith...

So, today’s little sunflower is kind of a critique of somebody else’s stuff, but I prefer to think of it as merely having grown out of that compost. I did not and do not intend to pick on that person or construct particularly. But her tone and concerns about how her identity is being erased as her web content is diminished seemed silly to me, and yet also like a good representation of the majority...

Oh it’s Christmas again. The day of hope. The day of cosmic reset. A chance perhaps. But that does not really seem to working or happening, huh? Many Christmases have come and gone in times of utter darkness and hopeless despair. People could look all about at their world and their evil circumstances and they could see that short of Jesus coming to save them right then and there, they and everythi...

So, a lot of what you’re seeing going on in Mar-a-Lago and Washington DC is because the Republicans and their elected and unelected fearless leaders have been claiming the election is a big mandate to overthrow the republic and set up the kind of country the oligarchs have been hankering for—like the faithful hanker for rods and staffs up their butts in the Bible. It isn’t just that these scumbags...

I mean, were you the asshole who came up with the grammar rules? I have never met that asshole. That’s because all those assholes are dead. I don’t know. I think there’s an arc in my salad of binary assumptions. Because the people are declining into their uneasy chairs and falling for the impossibility of anybody getting out of here alive. Anyway, bottom line, I don’t explain my jokes or my poems....

A poetic riff or a riffy poem or just another ill-tempered and sarcastic rant about the absurdities of our political and cultural prospects. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe

My first reaction to hearing this news was visceral—even though it was certainly no surprise. I think everybody expected this. But then Biden goes and does it and he does it in the expansive way he did it and he does it while still pathetically and stupidly bragging about how when he lies to the American people it ain’t that really because special circumstances on account of life ain’t fair and Re...

What can we say about the importance of identity that has not already been said? Well, I made an effort to explore answers to that question. And so this podcast. As always, do not blame me. You are totally responsible for choosing to listen to this. I mean, the show notes do not sound very fun. So...be accountable. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe

This is the first podcast of Parthian Shot. I spontaneously jabber about one of my favorite aphoristic commandments. And I arrive at the strong suggestion you use your other eyes to obediently perform the trick. I do not know what good this will do you. But the soundtrack just totally rocks, doesn’t it? Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe