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I hate “heartwarming” news stories. Except this one. It got linkrotted, so I am capturing the whole thing for reference. Teach your kids...

A succinct explanation of how the two-party system emerged in the US, and why it was able to function for so long before an inevitable b...

A glorious rant from Hal Duncan The greatest moral battle of our time? We quite agree, David Cocksucker. This is indeed the single mo...

The start of a linkpile of useful online resources The Citizen's Handbook Practical assistance for public citizens A t...

This post is not my own; the body of it was originally from Scott Madin of Fineness And Accuracy , posted at Shakesville . I meant for ye...

A word from Nils Gilman: Piketty is precisely my age, and has apparently been on precisely the same political trajectory. That tr...

In the US we talk about “The American Dream” with a hazy shared sense of what we mean but this often hides disagreements. For a long time...

I was recently reminded of some classics about patterns in groups and institutons which are abusive and dysfunctional. Sick systems: H...

If you want to buy things, I like these resources for finding good things to buy: Wirecutter has exceedingly in-depth reviews explain...

People often ask how such a warmongering asshole as Orson Scott Card could write a beautiful, humane, anti-war novel like Ender's Gam...

An uncanny thought experiment: Proposal for a book to be adapted into a movie starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson Here is the meager...

The quick and dirty tear gas primer What's in the Bag? — A Guide To Packing A Protest First Aid Kit Again, just getting started assem...

An index of resources Antiracism resources This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen o...

One of my favorite television series is Person Of Interest . This is my pitch for watching it. What it is On the face of it, the ...

HRC and the political moment I keep thinking that I don’t need to say this any more … and it keeps coming up. So for my own convenie...

GURPS One of the grossest cliches in all of gaming is the dungeon. In its most offensive form, a dungeon is nothing more t...