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

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

Editorial illustration: a living-room television shows a wrestling ring under an ON AIR light; in the aisle a policeman holds a crowd, and an unused safety harness hangs from the arena lights.

Nothing Fake About the Bill

By David Crush | Wrestling | 6 min read

Editorial cartoon: a theorist on a safe stone balcony holds a pristine city blueprint and a quill while workers shore up a cracked Capitol-like dome below; a crumpled blueprint labeled URBIT lies at his feet.

Ideas Are Easy: Curtis Yarvin Never Had to Build the Thing

By David Crush | Politics | 9 min read

Split editorial illustration: on the left a wrestler sits alone on a stool in a dark locker room; on the right the same man stands in a brightly lit ring while a crowd reaches up toward him.

The Other Cage: The Price of Being a Face

By David Crush | Wrestling | 11 min read

Editorial illustration of a lean masked wrestler walking toward a 1940s sedan at night, a knife catching the streetlight, while a policeman holds back an angry crowd spilling from a brick arena.

The Cost of Heat: The Green Shadow and the Bill for a Real Heel

By David Crush | Wrestling | 10 min read

Editorial illustration: a person at a fork in a dirt road. Left path labeled TOOL leads to a lamp-lit desk with handwritten notes. Right path labeled AVERAGE leads to a black box printing identical gray text.

Filling in the Blanks: What Anxiety Taught Me About AI

By David Crush | Software | 6 min read

Split editorial cartoon: a Buy Now button and I agree checkbox on the left; an empty library stamped REMOVED and a publicly funded stadium with a private profits vault on the right.

They Can't Have It Both Ways: Sony, Disney+, Stadiums, and the License You Never Bought

By David Crush | Software | 12 min read

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