»In which I commodify my dissent

At the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones St., I saw this billboard:

and two thoughts occurred to me in the chill morning air: "Bad Brains!!!"; and "Wait: haven't I seen their logo somewhere else recently?"

Yes: shilling for our President-elect. Despite these generally positive associations (comfortable skater shoes, progressive American politics), I figured that the Bad Brains publicity machine has been working in overdrive lately, and suddenly I missed The Baffler. That magazine put on paper the words in my mind, and then some, and all quite witty.