The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

My latest Substack article, titled "The Chronology of Crazy," is now published! You can check it out at the following link: https://craigrozniecki.substack.com/p/the-chronology-of-crazy

Here's a back-and-forth I had with a MAGA recently... MAGA: "The earth is flat and cancer is made up." Me: WTF are you talking about?!? The earth is round and cancer is most certainly not made up. MAGA: "You sound like a Democrat, believe everything you're told." Me: Who told you the earth was flat and cancer was made up? MAGA: "Do your own research. I did mine." Me: I'm asking you where you researched. MAGA: "That's for you to figure out." Me: Let me guess, it was some tinfoil-hat wearing conspiracy theorist on YouTube. MAGA: "You call them conspiracies. I call them truth." Me: These conspiracies have been debunked more times than Einstein could count. MAGA: "Debunk? What's that?" Me: To disprove MAGA: "Vaccines aren't cures; they treat symptoms." Me: What about polio? MAGA: "What about it? It's coming back." Me: Why is that? Anti-vaxxers. MAGA: "Modern medicine has no purp...

Podcast: I Feel Snitty Episode 200: Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including Dumbassery Premiere Date: 6/22/2022 Length: 43:59 (6,704 words) Link: https://ifeelsnitty.podbean.com/e/everything-is-bigger-in-texas-including-dumbassery/ Transcript:  Welcome to I Feel Snitty , episode 200, entitled, “Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including Dumbassery.” I’m your host, Craig Rozniecki.   The Republican Party of Texas held its state convention in Houston this past weekend, for the first time in four years, and adopted a new 40-page resolution in the process. I decided to take a gander at this resolution to see just how close it came to Mike Judge’s satirical vision in Idiocracy , and with that, to provide my snarkometer with a field day.   The resolution starts with a hilariously unintentionally ironic preamble, which I will quote in full:   “Affirming our belief in God, we still hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they a...