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Elizabeth Warren tells an instructive story about American politics in her 2014 book A Fighting Chance that is relevant to politics ... ...

I have love for a certain kind of engineering solution which presents a kind of charmed confluence of design, materials, and technical ...

This keeps coming up. So a quick word about democracy. “Democracy” does not mean elections. It does not mean “two wolves and a sh...

A project to create custom dice for tabletop roleplaying. I'll be expanding this post progressively.

A collection of commentaries, mostly on the HBO adaptation, from before its disappointing conclusion. Feudalism The problem L...

Helen Keller: So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me ‘arch p...

Tal Fortgang's article for Time Why I'll Never Apologize For My White Male Privilege has been getting a lot of internet attenti...

A lively telling of some of the history of the word that never did just mean “happy”. The word “gay” to mean “a male-designated perso...

In case you need it, Avicenna at A Million Gods has a good review of why the repugnant Theadore “Vox Day” Beale is repugnant.

In the course of a critique of Ron Paul , David Atkins at Hullaballoo says some incisive things about the fundamental differences betwee...

A Facebook friend asks, in a discussion of Cliven Bundy: Occupy San Francisco was permitted to illegally occupy Justin Herman Plaza f...

Today the news is Adam Nogourney's New York Times article A Defiant Rancher Savors the Audience That Rallied to His Side about Cliv...

photo of MUNI bus vs Google bus by defabulous There’s a lot of talk out there about the changes that the city of San Francisco ...

Dear Washington NFL Team: I'm not a football fan, but I've been talking with friends about you lately. I'm afraid we...

Note the date on this. When I wrote it, I thought I was late to say the obvious! One cannot help but notice that the mediasphere has...