Miniver Cheevy

Talking to a friend, I was reminded of how Linda Hamilton deserved a better career. In the original The Terminator , her line reading of ...

The dangerous temptation of anti-politics Politics is a bummer. People have incompatible visions of a good society. There are har...

On the one hand, I am radically opposed to violence, and my cishet masculinity is more than a little askew . On the other ha...

This keeps coming up. People say, “ X is as bad as the Holocaust”. The Holocaust was not uniquely evil. There are many comparable hor...

A friend shared a social media post to me: Liberalism is not anti-fascist as it is coupled with an economic system (capitalism) that ...

I caught this Actors Being Charming trifle and I have been thinking about the bit at 0:22 where DeVito jokes about being sweet on Michell...

I have San Franciscan pride in the unique magic of the Mission burrito. But I have the good grace not to claim it is the Only Good Burrit...

An old colleague reminded me of a story about a job I did not take. It’s partly a story about the state of user experience design circa 2...

I want to never lend strength to Israel apologists who disingenuously find antisemitism in anything anyone ever says and does in the n...

Over on Bluesky , someone challenged me over my insistence that “Zionism” means neither more nor less than wanting Israel to continue to...

This has now grown beyond what a post can or should hold, so it has its own website: APSKilledMyMom.com

Andor : Star Wars    :: The Wire : cop shows    :: Deadwood : Westerns It uses Star Wars as a setting to talk seriously abo...

Rescuing a thread from the Bad Place which explains why I caught feelings from a glimpse of a tiny little street sign in the background ...

Many commentators allude to the question of “Israel’s right to exist”. Noah Berlatsky calls shenanigans on that turn of phrase in his pos...

In my wasted youth, I read most of Robert A. Heinlein’s published writing. I cannot recommend doing that. But that inheritance from my yo...