Fundamentalism is Not Just the Game of Despots and Morons
And I like the ideas of Self Reliance, Integrity and Rationality in Objectivism. But Ayn Rand was a fucking sociopathic looney until she recanted most of Objectivism at the end of her life.
An Excuse, Even a Good One, Is Just an Excuse
Rules of Warfare (and How to Get Around Them)
"PANCAKES! 3 For $1.00"
Cinema and The Narratives We Buy Into
Pursuit of Happiness (Make a Resolution...)
You Will Die Exactly One Year from Today
The Longest Year in Recorded History
I Fully Acknowledge My White Privilege. Now What?
The terms "white privilege," "white fragility," and the concept of "white tears" have been so overused (at least on my FB feed and on Twitter here in my haven of diversity that is Chicago) that it has all become nothing more than empty rhetoric. This is not to say these things do not exist. There should be no question as to the necessity for acknowledging these conditions that exist in our fundamentally white supremacist institutionalized system.
The Denial of Expectations
The Thought That Counts
A National Pasttime Gorging on Rage
Do not ignore the horrors but in your passion to quell them, beat them, solve them, do not ADD to them.
Prepping the New Civil War or Just Business as Usual?
I hear a lot about how afraid everyone is and we have forgotten that Fear is, as a Great American Leader once said, the only thing to be wary of.
As the Left Eats Itself from Within...
If Everyone is Lying, What Happens When Someone Tells the Truth?
It's a Scientific Fact That We Are ALL a Bunch of Assholes
The Limits of Free Speech in a World of Slander and Libel
It's All in the Confidence Game
Trump is easily the least presidential cat I've seen. He makes George W. look like a fucking Rhodes scholar.
Nostalgia is like a Mirror of Broken Colored Glass
The vast tapestry of the internet, however, has changed that and while it feels claustrophobic in the present, it also forces our hindsight narratives to be more honest and inclusive.
Frontier Justice
How do we stop the bullies without becoming bullies ourselves?
...that, at a certain age, a birthday is no longer a celebration of your existence but another notch in the ‘Fuck off, Death’ belt.