It’s been a slow news week here in Batavia, Ohio, the taint of America. Apparently the Mueller report (kind of, sort of) came out, and liberals everywhere achieved an unbelievable tantric orgasm nearly two years in the making.

A week of truly epic, virtuosic horse-shit reached its tragic crescendo today, with the murder of at least […]

What a week. America saw two great injustices visited on the undeserving among us: Mexican businessman Joaquín “El Chapo” […]

Cockpunches. Octopuses and otters. Shoe polish. Minnesota Mean. What the fuck is happening?

What a difference five weeks of pointless, mind-numbing misery, humiliation, and dysfunction makes, huh?  Our big wet president […]

It’s 2019, kids. There’s something in the air.  What is that smell?  Lemon balm?  Hope?  Silica particles from […]

2018 was a big year for Tropics of Meta.  We welcomed new contributors (shout out to Eric Michael […]

It’s that time of year when people in the world of academia remember what the word “anticlimactic” really means.  All this building tension over the course of the semester, and then when it reaches its seeming crescendo in early December — splat.