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Question of the Week

Coffee or tea?

Rita Golding

Claims to live in Seattle, WA

Coffee. Tea is what you drink when you want to pretend caffeine addiction is a wellness practice. Coffee is honest about what it is. You need it. It delivers. The relationship has integrity.

Hank Durrell

Possibly from Baton Rouge, LA

Tea. I switched last year after my cardiologist showed me a chart that looked like a seismograph during an earthquake. Now I drink green tea and pretend I enjoy it. My heart rate thanks me. My soul does not.

Melanie Strack

Allegedly of Burlington, VT

Neither. Both industries are built on colonial extraction and environmental destruction. I drink locally sourced chicory root that I harvest myself. It tastes like dirt. That is the point.

A massive, looming gratitude journal with rusted, razor-sharp wire spirals terrifies an office worker.

Do not try this at home.

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Gratitude Journals Are a National Health Threat

philmaggitti blog 5 days

Gratitude journals began, like most national emergencies, with a pastel notebook and a suggestion from a morning talk show host. “Three bullet points a day,”… Read More

Epic Fury satirical illustration of a massive cartoon missile with a snarling shark face blasting through smoke and fire over a burning city skyline, fighter jets streaking overhead and explosions lighting the sky in a dramatic, exaggerated military scene.

Because nothing says restraint like calling it Epic Fury.

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Epic Fury: What’s in a Name?

philmaggitti blog 7 days

Nothing says “measured geopolitical response” like a name–Epic Fury, for example–that sounds as if it was brainstormed between a Monster Energy tasting and a focus… Read More

Vintage Belle Époque–style illustration for the shell game, showing a mustachioed French doctor examining an X-ray that reveals a WWI artillery shell lodged inside a patient.

Le Mystère de 'Obus': Shell we say, it was a blast.

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The Shell Game: You Can’t Satirize This

philmaggitti blog 1 month

The shell game violates the contract between a satirist and the world. According to that agreement, the satirist takes something real—something stupid, broken, magnificently daft—and… Read More

Old balding man trying to read a book, illustrating the cognitive and visual challenges of getting old

“This seemed easier when the letters behaved.”

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What a Drag It Is Getting Old

philmaggitti blog 1 month

Getting old is not a crisis. It is a slow-motion systems failure. Time stops cooperating. Monday insists it is Wednesday. Tuesday disappears entirely to avoid… Read More

Anonymous Redditor hunched over a laptop in a cluttered room, flannel shirt and sports cap visible, embodying the unnamed online source now cited as authority.

Trusted source. Unknown name. Unknown experience. Laptop crumbs speak for themselves.

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The Rise of the Anonymous Redditor: A Modern Authority Figure?

philmaggitti blog 2 months

Journalism used to rely on sources before the rise of the anonymous Redditor. Those sources had credentials. They had expertise. They occasionally returned phone calls.… Read More

Ten 2026 New Year's Resolutions guaranteed not to last until February, featuring an image of a man sitting in his underwear on a bare hardwood floor eating a slice of pizza and watching a large screen TV.

I will throw away every object in my house that does not spark joy.

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Ten 2026 New Year’s Resolutions Guaranteed Not to Last Until February

philmaggitti blog, top ten lists 2 months

We stand in the kitchen on New Year’s Eve, smelling like cheap champagne and regret, promising the universe that we will suddenly stop being the disasters… Read More

Cartoon image of a bucket reading from a list symbolizing satirical life advice in Buck-It List 4.0.

Before you kick the bucket.

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The Buck-It List 4.0, Satirical Life Advice

philmaggitti blog 3 months

Ten more things you should quit doing while not going gently into that good night. Satirical Life Advice for seniors. If you have already renounced… Read More

A dog rides in a car with his head out the rear passenger window, eyes closed and ears pinned by the breeze, capturing the joyful sensory overload behind Why Does My Dog Hang His Head Out the Car Window.

Because enlightenment travels at 45 miles per hour.

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The Astonishing Truth: Why Does My Dog Hang His Head Out the Car Window?

philmaggitti blog, dog 4 months

Veterinary science insists there is “no definitive explanation” for “Why Does My Dog Hang His Head Out the Car Window?” That is the polite scientific… Read More

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⚡ LinkedIn has introduced a new “Open to Spiritual Opportunities” badge, alerting recruiters that while you are technically employed, your soul clocked out sometime in late 2022 and has been networking aggressively ever since.
⚡ Apple’s latest iOS update now automatically replaces “I’m fine” with “I am managing a low-grade existential panic, but thank you for asking,” saving users valuable time in both texting and emotional repression.
⚡ Southwest Airlines has announced a premium boarding tier called “Group Therapy,” allowing passengers to process their fear of commitment, turbulence, and middle seats before being gently herded into the sky in a metal tube of shared denial.

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