Miniver Cheevy

For many years I have hosted an irreverent-but-ritually-correct seder for Pesach with my BFF. Inspired by Ira Steingroot’s book Keeping P...

I count myself a post-zionist rather than an anti-zionist, but I respect many forms of anti-zionism where they are morally consistent. F...

One of my favorite films is the little-known 1970 science fiction film Colossus: The Forbin Project , a thoughtful parable in which the U...

I try to be careful with the term “abuser”. There are meaningful distinctions between accidental harms, willfully harmful behavior short ...

Miss Gender <@girldrawsghosts> suggests : ill die on the hill that batman , superman , the hulk , and spider-man are the four...

Iain M. Banks is my favorite white male SFF writer. (Samuel R. Delany is my favorite SFF writer period; I need to write something like th...

One of my long-running Twitter threads re-shares “heartwarming” news stories from my feed … to register my disgust at them. It started w...

The best tabletop roleplaying actual play story I have ever heard. When the original d20 Star Wars RPG was being released, Wizards...

The Book Of Job is very strange. Job calls Ha’Shem to account for the injustice of the world, and the Voice From The Whirlwind deli...

The US has announced plans to build a pier to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza. A friend on my feed shared a comment calling this is ...

I need to write something proper about Timnit Gebru & Émile P. Torres’ coinage “ TESCREAL ” to describe the weirdnerd ideological cl...

I was just reminded of how conservatives like to claim that Ronald Reagan’s vast expansion of the US military budget and general “toughne...

The root beer scene from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode of “Way Of The Warrior” is my single favorite work of liberal-as-in-Isai...