Author (not me) Predicts the Future
Do not read the story “So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer (written in 2015 about a food blogger during a pandemic) unless you like crying. Or experiencing what it feels …
Do not read the story “So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer (written in 2015 about a food blogger during a pandemic) unless you like crying. Or experiencing what it feels …
I live on stolen land, specifically that of the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. I’m even related to some of the thieves (Hi, Great Grandpa!). Currently land acknowledgement is …
Short answer: “No.” America has always played nice with racists. Freeing the slaves for the civil war was just a tactic. One learned from the French-Indian War (where slaves were …
So this meme popped up after the election: It’s been equally hard on all of us? Hunh. I could note it’s harder on all the kids the Republicans locked in …
U.S. elections. Painful. Especially painful when neighbors are screaming that when they win, they will jail or kill all their opponents. Like God intended. Makes me want to move out. …
Ah, the joys of classifying yourself by “skin color.” When I was a kid, “white” was synonymous with “WASP”: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Anglo-Saxons were an invention, of course, of folks …
The nature of pain is to constrict a person’s world. For people struggling with a progressive disease, it can be an amazingly subtle thing, where you look back after years …
On today’s list of things that irritate me: I just can’t handle the topic THIS GROUP WAS FOUNDED ON. So… I’m gonna leave the group after wasting your time. And …
I’m fascinated by the idea of how the Proud Boys, who took an oath not to masturbate, will react to this: https://www.washingtonblade.com/…/gay-men-take-over…/ Who are the Proud Boys? Oh, your run-of-the-mill …
Like any good hack, I tend to be obsessed about how things came to be. In the case of civilization, the answers keep getting clearer and clearer. Thanks to the …