Miniver Cheevy

If one spends any time talking about politics on the internet, one encounters the “Political Compass”. It can be fun for stuff like poli...

In a discussion on a private forum about my post Social Justice Praxis Dreams , I got a reply from a social justice advocate with whom I ...

Over on Bluesky discussion of “Woke 2.0” like this from William B. Fuckley … I think that specific activist language is probably de...

Talking to a friend, I was reminded of how Linda Hamilton deserved a better career. In the original The Terminator , her line reading of ...

The dangerous temptation of anti-politics Politics is a bummer. People have incompatible visions of a good society. There are har...

On the one hand, I am radically opposed to violence, and my cishet masculinity is more than a little askew . On the other ha...

This keeps coming up. People say, “ X is as bad as the Holocaust”. The Holocaust was not uniquely evil. There are many comparable hor...

A friend shared a social media post to me: Liberalism is not anti-fascist as it is coupled with an economic system (capitalism) that ...

I caught this Actors Being Charming trifle and I have been thinking about the bit at 0:22 where DeVito jokes about being sweet on Michell...

I have San Franciscan pride in the unique magic of the Mission burrito. But I have the good grace not to claim it is the Only Good Burrit...

An old colleague reminded me of a story about a job I did not take. It’s partly a story about the state of user experience design circa 2...

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is sim...