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 …
Category: Wanderings
Please Give Back (seriously!)
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 …
Can’t We All Just Play Nice?
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 …
A Matter of Attitude.
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 …
So That Election…
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. …
Think You’re White? Guess Again.
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
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 …
Things That Irritate Me
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 …
Kissy Face
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 …
A Relationship Born in Babylon
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 …