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12 January 2026
Covid-cautious socializing
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My sweetheart & I are living the covid-cautious life, so that compels us to have a protocol for socializing. Indoors With not j...
02 January 2026
Divination and “AI”
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Contrary to what many esotericists and civilians imagine, one need not believe that the Cosmos delivers wisdom through which tarot cards ...
15 December 2025
The tale of RMS Carpathia
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I’m overdue to keep a link to this great telling of one of my favorite stories: the RMS Carpathia rescuing surivors of the wreck of the...
21 November 2025
Clarifying common social justice praxis
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Social justice is not my primary political project, so I don’t want to claim profound expertise. But having rolled with people who are...
20 November 2025
Manifestos for a new America
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We have no choice but to think big. The ongoing reälignment of American politics which produced the Trump regime is already at leas...
10 November 2025
Wank
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Iris Meredeth offers “wank” as a useful term of art : Our society clearly has an issue with a whole family of bad-faith speech acts: o...
15 October 2025
The end of the Social Justice Détente
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After the wrenching fights over social justice from the ’60s through the early ’70s, American society made an implicit bargain I like to ...
Romney bitterness
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Over on Bluesky, a bunch of lefties piled on to a post expressing a common sentiment from the right. The media smeared Mitt Romney as ...
“Cancel culture” and criticism
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I keep bouncing off of my attempts to say something sophisticated about the challenges in constructively criticizing social justice advo...
08 October 2025
The Ballads of Malcolm Reynolds
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Over on Bluesky, Sean Kelly says : Malcolm Reynolds starting off as an abusive prick who all the women love anyway because deep down...
24 September 2025
Luke Skywalker
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I don’t entirely love Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi — it works for me, though I recognize that it is messy — but I consider its ...
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