Miniver Cheevy

To the Mysterious Author who writes the PantyCon schedule: I have an unsolicited word of advice, in this moment when a lot of people ...

I have reserved this page for comments on my long open letter to the author of the PantyCon faux convention schedule, so that the comme...

In the course of a good article about why Republicans seem to be pandering to anti-vaccination people over at the Weekly Sift, I was str...

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 standing...

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. ...