Month: June 2022
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Demonizing Oligarchs Won’t Win Elections
Let’s be clear: the times when progressive actions could circumvent the legislature have now ended. In the face of persistent obstructionism by republicans elected to Congress, Obama turned to executive actions and he did what he could with what he had. (For the record, it has not escaped my memory that Donny with the Combover…
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Alito’s “Ordered Liberty,” or, the masks donned by fascists
Historical inquiry is no different from scientific inquiry. I’m an ancient historian saying this, and one particularly fond of the man who first applied the emergent principles of scientific inquiry (those still used to this day in so-called ‘Western’ science) to the study of our species and specifically to a scientific inquiry into the causes…
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Complacency
As a gay queer male, I have known intense suffering at the hands of people who swore they felt nothing but love for me. As psychotic as it sounds, it was love that drove my family to their responses. But it was also love that drove two of the three of them to accept the…
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Do You Know Where Your National Parks Came From?
Do you know how the US ended up with so many National Parks, or how we ended up with so much empty land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)?
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Considerations for the Future
I am a white gay queer male. What business could I have in politics? I’m placing a lot of emphasis on the white male to the detriment of everything that makes me something else. But I’m also genuinely tired of white-washed politics. But I am also absolutely done with this system. And I know that…
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How to Learn Under Threat
On trying to get an education while the world falls apart and the apparent folly despite its daily necessity.
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On Commas and Guns
A philological (and neurodivergent) reading of the Second Amendment. In short: our armed forced have the right to bear arms, as well they should, in the interest of the state exclusively.
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We Don’t Have To Live Like This
You cannot have failed to notice the changes. There is the extreme weather, for one thing. Maybe you’ve noticed that the Arctic is passable now, opened for shipping. A minority of our 200,000 year old species has managed to devastate this beautiful planet and completely upset its delicately balanced systems in under 200 years.
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Not Even 10%
Not even one tenth of the US population over the age of 18 watched the opening hearing on January 6th last week. Preliminary reports suggest that it garnered 20 million or so viewers, in a nation of over 258 million over the age of 18.
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Did Ginny Thomas Believe Her “Bullshit”?
First of all, that’s Bill Barr’s word, not my own, although it is and has long been one of my own choice words for the mess that is the ‘conservative’ movement in the US.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 