David Crush — Deep Thoughts, Dry Wit, and the Occasional Existential Crisis.

Deep Thoughts, Dry Wit, and the Occasional Existential Crisis.

Editorial cartoon: a political Overton window sliding right on a navy wall while a crowd stares left at a glowing screen labeled LEFT TOOK OVER.

Series · 3 parts

The Country Shifted Right

A three-part series: the Overton window moved right, churches were mobilized as strategy, and the kitchen-table bet failed the outcomes test.

Colored-pencil illustration: a boy in pajamas sits cross-legged on his bed at night, a laptop of typed pages and wrestling title belts on his lap, looking uneasy. In the bright doorway, five smiling adults laugh and clap, their words drawn as one tangled black scribble above them. An overnight bag with a rolled sleeping bag waits by the door. On the wall above the bed hangs a theater mask still sealed in its plastic packaging.

Neurodivergence

You Don't Really Mean That

I said I did not want to go to the sleepover. People laughed it off.

Oct 16, 2026

Editorial cartoon: in a dim navy living room, a snarling wrestler in a black vest shouts and points out of an old boxy television set while a fan, seen from behind, leans toward the screen. A hand in a navy suit sleeve reaches in from the right edge of the frame and turns the TV's volume knob down. On the screen behind the heel, a small wrestler leaps off the top of a tall ladder over the ring.

Let the Heels Be Heels

Max Caster's rap barely drew heat. Firing him still taught every heel a lesson.

Oct 15, 2026

Editorial cartoon: under arena spotlights, a young wrestler holds a gold championship belt over his head in front of a cheering crowd. In the foreground, a grinning man in a navy suit waves into a TV camera, so the camera's screen shows him instead of the champion. In the corner, a hand holds a phone whose screen reads POST DELETED.

TNA Bound for Glory 2026: A Growing Pains Show

Leon Slater's title win was a welcome surprise. TNA buried it under its own mess.

Oct 13, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a man in a navy sweater reads a paperback in an armchair on a sunny porch, his phone face-down beside a cup of coffee. Through the window behind him, a giant glowing screen holds an endless stack of feed posts and a crowd of tiny people shouting and pointing. On a shelf in the foreground sits a glass jar labeled WAIT 24 HRS, full of crumpled paper.

Sit On It

I left four social networks. On the one I'm building, angry posts wait 24 hours.

Oct 12, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration of a wide, empty field of dry grass under a pale afternoon sky. In the foreground, a smartphone sits on a black tripod with a small red recording light glowing. Beside it, a gray metal folding chair holds a closed black Bible with a red ribbon marker. In the distance, a single leafy tree and an old wooden telephone pole stand at the edge of the field. No one is there.

The Sword in Vain

The Pentagon will livestream the firing squad, set for the hour of the shooting.

Oct 9, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration of a long wooden kitchen table set for a crowd that has not arrived yet. In the foreground lie four Bibles side by side: a black leather one with gilt edges, a large one lying open with a red ribbon across its pages, a navy blue one, and a burnt-orange one, each with a ribbon marker. Behind them sit two woven baskets heaped with bread rolls and a plate of two small fish. Mismatched empty chairs surround the table: wooden spindle-backs, a blue-painted chair, and a gray metal folding chair.

An Open Book Test

645 million people faced hunger in 2025. Matthew's crowd had seven baskets left.

Oct 9, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration of a crowded, cheerful baby shower: pastel balloons, bunting, and a table piled with wrapped gifts, surrounded by smiling guests in conversation. Above their heads, their talk is drawn as one dense, tangled black scribble. In the right corner, a bearded man sits on a couch, smiling and petting two golden dogs, with a baseball game on the TV beside him. On a side table next to him stand three red soda cans and one blue one.

Neurodivergence

A Pepsi in a World of Coca-Cola

Our baby shower was full of love. To me, every conversation became one blob.

Oct 8, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration: three men in suits stand with arms crossed behind the glass doors of a modern office, watching a man walk away carrying a cardboard box holding a mug, a small plant, and a Bible. The paved sidewalk under his feet turns into an ancient dirt road through olive trees and rocky hills, where a small group of robed first-century travelers walks ahead of him toward a walled hilltop city in golden evening light.

In Good Company

Matthew's Jesus is not serene. I read him while my job was coming apart.

Oct 7, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a speaker at a podium lights a match to a paper schedule while a wrapped gift and an empty coastal road sit unused behind him.

The Coast Was Available

CBO had a two-percent path in writing. He signed the other one in the Rose Garden.

Sep 10, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a man in academic robes stands at a lectern stamped SUBSCRIBE, eyes closed, a SPEECH CODE scroll in one hand, while a crowd in the dark below fills speech bubbles with a gun and a gallows.

The Philosopher and the Crowd

In 2008 he asked for chanting hordes. A 2026 reply wanted a governor at gunpoint.

Sep 9, 2026