Wait But Why post “explaining” the same news story:
“Okay, so. To understand this, we’re going to have to zoom way out first.
The first thing you need to know is that politics is kind of like a line. We could call it the Politics Noodle. People like to yell at each other because they’re standing on different parts of the noodle.
[6-panel cartoon of stick figures standing on a piece of spaghetti and exchanging quirky insults]
Weird, huh?
Now, imagine that Hillary Clinton wakes up one morning, and finds herself standing in her usual place on the Politics Noodle.
[cartoon of stick figure Hillary saying something Hillary-ish]
“Andrew Hussie wants queer voters to engage in the democratic process with their chainsaws in the coming election” is just such a good phrase in and of itself. People should say this every time there’s an election
Utopia as the Mundum-as-told-by-Paul Hive: immense moral duty (not easily explicable to others) pervading every moment, noticing sub-optimal physical features of the immediate environment, sublunary/celestial, “it’s so arbitrary that everyone just lives on this little sphere”
