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

Editorial cartoon: a politician poses under a GOLDEN AGE arena billboard while a hardcore section still cheers and people with grocery bags walk toward the exits.

Tell the Truth Until You Can't: Political Kayfabe, Heel Heat, and the Golden-Age Promo

By David Crush | Wrestling & Politics | 9 min read

Editorial illustration of a long crowded table being extended with extra chairs, while a small closed circle of people looks on from a church doorway.

A Bigger Table

By David Crush | Religion | 5 min read

Editorial cartoon of a steel cage around a wrestling ring, crowd on their feet, a pay-per-view box on a living-room TV in the corner.

TNA Lockdown 2026: Every Match in a Cage, and I Was Entertained

By David Crush | Wrestling | 5 min read

Editorial illustration of a grandfather and a boy on a couch watching wrestling on a CRT television, with a stack of VHS tapes on the floor beside them.

How I Got Into Wrestling

By David Crush | Wrestling | 6 min read

Editorial cartoon: a wrestling promoter signs a giant TV contract while a network executive in a suit rewrites the match card on a clipboard, empty arena seats in the background.

The Rights Deal Trap: Wrestling, Media Money, and the Cost of Letting Non-Wrestlers Run the Show

By David Crush | Wrestling | 11 min read

Editorial cartoon of a wrestling ring split in two: on one side a roaring crowd watches a classic heel get beaten by a hero; on the other side an empty arena with a wrestler winking at the camera and a broken championship belt on the mat.

The Lost Art of Professional Wrestling: Psychology, Kayfabe, and Why the Business Stopped Scaling

By David Crush | Wrestling | 13 min read

Political cartoon split panel: a billboard reading money won't matter in 2036 on one side, and on the other a billionaire counts cash stacks and government contract checks.

He Can't Have It Both Ways: Elon Musk's Abundance Rhetoric and His Real Priorities

By David Crush | Politics | 15 min read

Political cartoon: a CEO in a boardroom chair atop a government dais while load-bearing columns have been removed and stacked as efficiency savings, the ceiling cracking overhead.

The Theory That Cannot Fail: Curtis Yarvin's Autocracy Got Its Trial Run

By David Crush | Politics | 16 min read

Political cartoon: a driver in a parking lot faces a police alert from a license plate camera while scales of justice tilt toward the street instead of a courtroom.

When the Camera Says You're Guilty: How AI Surveillance Inverts the Presumption of Innocence

By David Crush | Politics | 13 min read