David Crush — Essays on Christianity, neurodivergence, politics, and pro wrestling.

Essays on Christianity, neurodivergence, politics, and pro wrestling.

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

Editorial cartoon: a speaker at a podium shouts while a smaller figure bricks shut a hole torn in the speech-scroll behind him.

The Blank They Fill In

Trump said firefighters carried him on 9/11. He was five miles north, in Midtown.

Sep 9, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a midnight line clutches empty retail boxes; an open box holds a slip labeled LICENSE, a PRE-ORDER sign glows orange, and a receipt is stamped REVOCABLE.

Pre-Ordering Permission

GTA VI's box shows up November 12. Inside is a slip of paper.

Sep 6, 2026

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

Owen Hart talked to the writer about the harness. Then he fell seventy-eight feet.

Sep 4, 2026