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Michael Black

Los Angeles
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Articles

  • 3 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Black

    So little brings me joy these days but, girl, when I tell you I’m loving every second of the psychodrama apparently playing out between Elon Musk, Stephen Miller and Stephen’s wife Katie, I am loving every second of it.

  • 2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Black

    Please stop with the “we have to find a left-wing Joe Rogan” bulls***. For one thing, we have plenty of popular left and left-leaning voices who already fit the bill: among white dudes, Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers, and Howard Stern spring to mind. Younger, lesser-known voices like David Pakman, Destiny, and Adam Mockler are building sizable audiences on YouTube. Second – crucially – a “left-wing Joe Rogan” is a contradiction in terms. It’s like saying we need an intellectual version of Jackass.

  • 3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Black

    I admit it: I’m a dumb, average American. The product of an average high school and a college dropout. But, you know, I read and stuff. And I thought I knew a little something about America. Nope. Turns out, I’m an idiot. For decades, I was under the mistaken impression that presidential bribery is one of them fancy “high crimes and misdemeanors” I learned about in Social Studies.

  • 1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Black

    Trump made headlines this week for going all Marie Kondo on the American economy—and I am here for it.

  • 1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Black

    You ever rent a car? I do, all the time. And every single time I’m furious when I get the bill because there’s always more charges—many, many more charges—than I’d anticipated. Concession fee recovery. Vehicle licensing cost recovery. Customer facility charge. State tax. And on and on. By the time you’re done, you might end up paying up almost double the stated rental cost. You might have a problem with all the extra charges, but at least you know what they are.