Miniver Cheevy

My social media feed has a lot of people pointing to Chris Armitage’s post I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The s...

Restless about the gawdawful American electoral system, I have come up with a crackpot proposal for a system for electing a legislature...

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The Democratic Party has nothing to gain and everything to lose by compromising on trans liberation. A lot of the Democratic Party est...

A while back I stumbled across the almost-forgotten 1971 “horror” film Simon, King of the Witches . The film is much better than the titl...

I need to start indexing typefaces I like, if only so I can find them again. This is just a start. Indices Faces Big fre...

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so a few things up front: the moral question is simple : Palestinian liberation is r...

I have now had decades of dumb arguments with Grumbling Liberals kvetching about the “purity politics” of Very Noisy Leftists refusing to...

If one spends any time talking about politics on the internet, one encounters the “Political Compass”. It can be fun for stuff like poli...

In a discussion on a private forum about my post Social Justice Praxis Dreams , I got a reply from a social justice advocate with whom I ...

Over on Bluesky discussion of “Woke 2.0” like this from William B. Fuckley … I think that specific activist language is probably de...