“Conservative Legitimacy Gets Slipperier” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

Debates are one more thing -- and one more credentialing institution -- apparently now optional, at least for Donald Trump, I write in today’s column.

“Anti-Fasc” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

I write one last “Anti-Fasc” column urging the GOP to save itself from Trump using Cruz.

“Dark Mayer: Anti-Koch Straw-Grasping” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

I write of Jane Mayer as the latest in a long line of weird, sometimes pseudo-psychoanalytical attacks on libertarians such as the Koch brothers.

“Pink, Taxing” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

In today’s column, dismiss feminist fears of a “pink tax” as bad econ, and I respond briefly to a trans critic.

“Ten Steps to Being a Functional Conspiracy” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

The GOP had better take a page from X-Files and learn to coordinate because being against Trump but divided is not going to stop him, I write in today’s column.

“Ten Commandments of Mormon Appreciation” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

Even as an atheist, I have to have a certain fondness for things the Mormons have given us, from Donny and Marie and Battlestar Galactica to Mitt Romney (who we’ll all probably miss when the dark night of fascism descends soon), as I write in today’s column.

“Police States Love Chaos and Order” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

Saved by Zero? I note a few bizarre police-state-like trends these days -- and the odd Vision Zero program here in NYC -- in today’s column.

“Don’t Talk to the Animals: Nor the Ghosts, Etc.” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

I lament in today’s SpliceToday column that Koko the gorilla, little boys in comas, and a lot of other nonsense gets listened to by a gullible public.

“Buchanan Pulling Ahead!” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

Populists may yet win, two decades after Pat Buchanan’s efforts to take over the GOP, if Trump and even Sanders’ rhetoric is any indication, I write in today’s column.

“Gender Dystopia: No Winning Move” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

From androgynous clothes that aren’t gendered enough for the transgender people to feminists against Bowie, you will never keep the activists happy, I write.

“Cruz the Debater: But Paul’s Not Dead” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

Love Rand Paul but gotta conclude after his absence and Ted Cruz’s cross-faction appeal in last night’s debate that Cruz is right now the only hope to stop Trump, I say in today’s column.

“Ten Troubling Nations” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

Saudi, China, Germany, the U.S., Canada, Antarctica, and more -- all terrible, and some about to be overrun by massive raping hordes, as I explain in today’s column.

“State of the Unions” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

I note the Senate failing to pass Rand Paul’s Audit the Fed bill, the President speaking, and the Supreme Court sounding admirably skeptical about public sector union dues, in today’s column.

“Bowie: Loving the Alien” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

I reflect on a small fraction of the strange things David Bowie meant to me, two days after his death, in my daily column.

“Hanson: EmmmBot” by Todd Seavey on SpliceToday

Economist Robin Hanson’s forthcoming book imagines the social implications of being able to copy existing human minds more easily than we can build artificial ones completely from scratch, as I write in today’s column.