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 …
Category: Wanderings
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 …
Scribbling on the Walls
It’s sobering that I have an expertise in one of the primary tools of the enemy. That would be writing (I’m not trying to make a mystery of this). Why …
How to Frame a Narrative (“Thug Life” version)
This was… uncomfortable to write. I did this on a social media feed when someone tried to justify a 17-year old killing two protestors and maiming a third. So, I …
How to Frame a Narrative (the “War Prayer” version)
Have you ever read Twain’s “The War Prayer”? If not, here it is: Consider the below, an attempt at the War Prayer 2020 A child comes to Kenosha, full of …
A Bell Tolls in Kenosha
It will, sadly be easy enough to find in the news feeds. Child Shoots Protestors. August 23rd. There’s an angry man, who is leaving a situation to drive off with …
Why Sociopathy Ain’t a Good Survival Strategy (even today)
Capitalism rewards sociopathic behavior. By design. That’s pretty much a given. A sociopath (with limits) will achieve far more effective goals than someone who worries about what their co-workers are …