21 Comments
User's avatar
Daniel Howard James's avatar

When you can't tell if it's satire, you have to award a PhD. Congratulations, Doctor!

Expand full comment
Benjamin Morse's avatar

🙏

Expand full comment
C. Erik Wilkinson's avatar

Regarding the slab of concrete it should be christened as a new form of architecture: Horizontal Brutalism.

Expand full comment
Benjamin Morse's avatar

The only way to let anti-beauty anti-hierarchy reign supreme is to bulldoze everything into unforgiving flatness.

Expand full comment
Mary's avatar

Brilliant!

Expand full comment
Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you 🙏

Expand full comment
Lusmila's avatar

You know its gonna be a Mr.Toad's WIld adventure ride when the first paragraph ends with "So I’m sorry in advance if anyone takes offense at what I’m about to say, but if you do it is probably your fault for enabling oppressive structures in the first place." You had me at hell-oh. LOLOL

Expand full comment
OpEd's avatar

Brilliant!

Expand full comment
M Lucky 🍁🎗's avatar

Friendly reminder. It's Scotlandwaterandair.

Calling it "Scotland" is not inclusive of water and air.

Expand full comment
Benjamin Morse's avatar

I was going to use this preferred term but some people don’t feel safe around air.

Expand full comment
Garry Craig Powell's avatar

Brilliant. Definitely restacking this!

Expand full comment
Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you!

Expand full comment
GenderRealistMom's avatar

While your assessment is mostly right on point, you seem heartlessly indifferent to the plight of the BLM founder who lost two out of three mansions in CA fires. Why didn't the fire have the decency to queer around her hard-stol... I mean hard-earned property? Do better, Mx Morse

Expand full comment
Benjamin Morse's avatar

I am devastated to learn about Patrice’s loss. Thank you for educating me. When I think how she doubled the value of one of them to $6 million by having the org buy it from her, I realise it’s not just climate change but racism that caused the fire.

Expand full comment
Russian Record's avatar

We should treat bad cases of racism with steroids because they are anti-inflammatory.

Expand full comment
Benjamin Morse's avatar

What an opportunity for big pharma!

Expand full comment
Chana P's avatar

Because it was felt he needed to have his homes doused by firefighters that "looked like him", and the only personnel available to put out the conflagration were Ashkenazi Jewish men. (Incidentally, they were also cis-, heterosexual and voted for Trump)

Expand full comment
GenderRealistMom's avatar

:) That BLM founder is actually a “she” not a “he” but that’s besides the point.

Expand full comment
Chana P's avatar

Oh dear, I have misgendered the the founder of BLM.

Expand full comment
Beeswax's avatar

That could change, though. Never assume.

Expand full comment
Chana P's avatar

True enough.

Expand full comment