We’ve reached the post-truth era. 2016 will be the year the phenomenon of soothing truth was finally recognized, truth that massages our own biases and kneads away troublesome knots of inconvenient fact. Gradients of truth, varying in their veracity, overload our supposedly shortening attention spans and we are collectively led to the newspaper’s logical conclusion: memes […]
Read more "Post-Normal"Trump’s second term, for those of us repulsed, feels like being tossed around a dryer. And we’re barely three months in.
Read more "High Heat, Tumble Dry: On the Beginning Months of Trump’s Second Term"Reading and writing–here is 2024’s output.
Read more "Selfies…with Books! 2024 Year in Review"This is an analysis of the 2024 Vice Presidential Debate, particularly of the hollowness of J.D. Vance’s responses.
Read more "J.D. Vance Fooled Quite A Bit of People"Inspired by Kamala Harris’ conversation with the National Association of Black Journalists, and the latest (that I know) act of self-immolation.
Read more "Taken To Its Logical End"The only thing for the election of evil is for good people to not vote.
Read more "Dear Non-Voter (2024 Edition)"Mythbuster co-host Adam Savage had this to say as his introductory phrase: “I reject your reality and substitute my own.” Apparently it is that easy.
Read more "A Criminal Conviction"News and evidence of genocide travels fast in the digital age. The world continues to lag behind.
Read more "Genocide For All To See"The human toll exacted by Bibi Netanyahu on the Palestinian people has been staggering. I wonder where he got that idea from?
Read more "No One Puts Bibi in the Corner"During the time when superstition reigned, The Devil concept provided a great organizing principle for why agreements should be honored. Surely we’ve progressed beyond the concepts that gave order during superstitious times, right?
Read more "Understanding “The Devil” Concept Through Contract Law"We hope for change to be positive. Diminishing loading screens may have primed us to consider change itself as positive, no matter the direction it goes.
Read more "Snakes and Ladders: On Loading Screens"
