Miniver Cheevy

Sartre I keep needing this observation from Anti-Semite and Jew . It describes not just antisemitism but the sensibilities of the far ...

This is a story about doing your best. So like a lot of people I have a certain ambivalence about Ms Amanda Palmer, but I love this th...

The Wild Hunt asked for a quote. I got carried away. My patron god is Hermes, god of communication, magic, and the agora, who sin...

Sam Theilman's essay You're Asking The Wrong Questions does some deep digging into the principle of free speech , looking at som...

I am fascinated with Thomas Jefferson. I love him. He is my favorite of the Founders. The first reason is the Declaration of Independe...

At the time, I tweeted a kind word about Meryl Streep's speech referencing the (then forthcoming) Trump administration, though I had...

So a while back I spat out this story on Facebook and now I'm posting it here. There's this skinny young guy I run into on an irr...

Because I am that kind of geek, I have constructed a sort of EDC solution for tabletop roleplaying games. For a long time, my only...

If you have the good fortune to not know who Milo Yiannopoulos is, you have my envy ... and my apologies for ending your innocence. He i...

Since so many people seem to be confused on this point: free speech is the right to express ideas without coercion We must p...

Since well before the current crisis I have been worried that too many people don’t know the difference between No Platform and Not My Me...

In the face of the forthcoming Trump administration, there is a lot of work to be done. Protecting people and necessary institutions wh...

Jonathan Chait's article Jill Stein's Plan To Stop Trump By Electing Him is making the rounds all over my feed, so I guess I hav...

I just succumbed to a Kickstarter for simple little abstract strategy game called Tak, meant to be the incarnation of a game referenced ...

I wind up looking this up a few times a year, and I've never found a sufficiently legible version to satisfy me, so I'm cooking ...