Recreational Outrage

A hobbyist’s guide to feeling furious.

  • The Cult of Benevolent Bigotry

    The Cult of Benevolent Bigotry

    For the purposes of the following post, and for education in general, the following are the definitions of words below: A lot of the back and forth on social media in reaction to tragedies spawned of political intolerance is trying to accuse one side as being “worse” than the other. For instance, in response to…

  • Community Safety

    Community Safety

    Today in Minneapolis, another US citizen (Alex Pretti, 37) who was out attempting to interfere with ICE operations, was shot during a struggle with officers. This is tragic for many, many reasons, and understandably, tempers are running hot. On the one hand, you’ve got those who think this was the inevitable outcome of his own…

  • Beam Me Up, Scotty

    Beam Me Up, Scotty

    On Novemeber 21,2025, Dan Farah’s documentary The Age of Disclosure was released. Far from the first of it’s kind, and presenting mostly information that had already been made public, Farah made a streaming-friendly, slickly-produced film meant to resonate with general audiences. The film features interviews with 34 high-ranking, bi-partisan government, military, and intelligence officials in…

  • Trump Inventory

    Trump Inventory

    Like many of you, my Facebook feed is filled with posts about Donald Trump – the man you hate for always wanting being the center of attention, but whom you can not, for the life of you, stop talking about. Today’s social media feed featured “How will Trump be remembered?”. I chuckled to myself a…

  • Johnny Get Your Gun

    Johnny Get Your Gun

    We all know about the United States’ love of guns. I mean they really, really love them. They’re everywhere, and they’re not crazy expensive, making gun ownership accessible to nearly every home in the USA. The idea is that the people are able to defeat and remove any government that becomes tyrannical. When you weaponize…

  • Hell in a Handbasket

    Hell in a Handbasket

    I was born at the tail end of the 70s, was a kid in the 80’s, a young man in the 90s. I remember the last few years of rotary dial phones and cassette recorders as they gave way to push button phones and CD players, then beepers and the World Wide Web, and somewhere…