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Apropos of the horrifying video making the rounds on Twitter today, of a police officer shooting into a car full of passengers, a few da...

This admirable and recondite spell from T. Thorn Coyle can be cast whenever friends gather. Tradition calls for all present to raise a gl...

A long digression from a characteristically long post at Slate Star Codex, The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories ...

I keep needing to explain the terms by which I manage discussion in comments on my Facebook feed, which I have tried to keep lively witho...

To explain my commitment to being a proponent of feminism in the face of a number of objections, I need to offer a distinction I make bet...

I’ve been meaning for some time to write about an important form of informational hygiene one must practice when reading things on the...

In the last few days, I have noticed some puzzled people on social media circulating the story about “Oath Keepers” in Ferguson standi...

Today I tweeted Jason Segedy's manifesto The Rising Tide , which calls for Generation X to step up as we enter our middle years and r...

Yesterday I tweeted a link to a post on Bill Murray Stories. I said: Bill Murray: the only person in the world who is truly free ...

F*%&ing Nolan. Interstellar stinks. It stinks as only something created by an army of capable people can stink. It is not a no...

Stanislav, eccentric operating system designer of Loper OS, points out the obvious about Apple's unique position in the tech industr...

Some friends have asked how I'm voting in the California election on Tuesday, since there are a number of tricky ballot initiatives. ...

For now, this is a short list, but I'm putting up this post as a place to keep short reviews of surprisingly-good obscure films avail...

A friend who is a nurse just told me this little story: Medical Records of a hospital in another city We require a signed form to r...

We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. You can get that image as a t-shirt. It seems that most people know that...

A tweet from Andy Baio informs me that the visual interface style for Yosemite has taken a interesting turn. In his tweet, Baio c...

Samuel R. Delaney reflects on a discussion of Transgressive Sexual Practice he participated in. (There's video !) W HY IT'S HA...