Miniver Cheevy

A hundred hokey old movies and TV shows got stupid gritty reboots in the last couple of decades. But not the one which is a natural for t...

Claudia Black, a regular on the odd, interesting SF television series Farscape (1999-2003), shared this little story I like in a Twitter...

Indexing a few favorites. Most quotes are just a taste to get readers interested. Titles are links. Trek The Thing About The...

I have weirdly strong feelings about the Hippocratic Oath as an ethical frame around the medical profession. I think it is the most noble...

Waking up to Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, I shared to social media the comment: Most of Trump’s voters weren’t asking for wh...

I just succumbed to subscribing to John Ganz’ Unpopular Front , and was rewarded with a post offering a sharp critique of left anti-anti...

Hamiltion Nolan says Everyone Into The Grinder : One of the most direct ways to improve a flawed system is simply to end the ability o...

Getting a start on capturing some YIMBY-ish resources: The San Francisco tech boom crisis Another index of mine, c...

Copied from Tumblr : was explaining to my mom on the phone the concept of a cosmic horror and she hit me with the one hit k.o. ⋯ ...

I respect premature antifascists , but not premature anticommunists . A long excerpt: “Premature Anti-Fascist” by Bernard Knox ...

Big Bad Con is a tabletop roleplaying convention founded with a deep commitment to social justice and a healthy community space. This ye...