As of Wednesday, Jan 14th 2026, we're still here.

There are no rules in this dojo.

Well, there are a lot of rules in this dojo, but none of them are about how the dojo works.

Some superfan with free time or future-based historian of History’s Most Tragic Dads will hopefully cull this site to organize the existential rules that have been tossed out, but it’s clear none of them are really about the site. Rules are things like:

• When a dog bites a man, that is not news. And when a human being who has openly revealed they’re evil does evil things, that is “a thing you should be warned about,” but it is not exactly surprising.

• The modern American press corps believes that people in power are (1) smart (2) well-intentioned and (3) speaking in good faith REGARDLESS OF WHO THE PEOPLE IN POWER ARE OR HAVE SHOWN THEMSELVES TO BE. The power itself, in the minds of most newspapers and cable channels, confers these virtues on a person and they should be treated as such. This is… a dumbshit way to do the news.

• Many many Democrats would rather be fighting on the front lines against a government fully run by MAGA than fighting against a government fully run by leftists, and they work to keep that dynamic how they want it.

• Centrism is not a political position; it is choosing a place in between two other people’s political positions. [This one has a whole post already!]

• The American conversation operates with no object permanence; because of this someone shunned as a brigand can return less than a year later with no consequences. Cancel culture cannot exist in a society that cannot remember who was canceled or why. So bad people escape consequence, and bad-faith liars get to pretend they’re honestly debating again and again and again.