Category: Editorial
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Further Notes on the Second Amendment
Three more thoughts on the Second Amendment as a sort of epilogue to my neurodivergent and philological interpretation of it (‘On Commas and Guns’)
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Meanwhile the Everyday Violence of Apartheid in Palestine, Funded by US Tax Dollars
An update on casualties in Palestine as the Iranians try for liberty and western attention remains fixedly on Ukraine.
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I Must Be Confused, or How to read a pie chart: Water Edition
Is it you or is it the systems: water edition.
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The mystery isn’t whether Biden is popular; the mystery is why anyone thinks he would be.
This poor guy wanted to be president for over 30 years, gets it, and then becomes one of the least popular presidents in recent history–to no real surprise at all.
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Anyone for Lysistrata? Or, Towards a sex-strike for abortion rights, via Aristophanes’ Comedy
Proposing a sex strike for women’s rights, esp. reproductive care, following Aristophanes’ model, Lysistrata
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On My Palestinian Flag
Reflections on advocating for disadvantaged peoples who’ve faced oppression far worse than what’s being inflicted in Ukraine, but whose oppression comes with US-tax-dollar funding.
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Is It You or Is It The Systems?
An intervention: stop blaming yourself for systemic problems! Instead let’s remake the systems together!
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On Bridges and Trains, or Legitimate Anxiety in the Anthropocene
A metaphor for understanding our times and toward recognizing our climate anxiety and even grief as legitimate expressions of emotion in the face of an unprecedented global destabilization brought about by the last 200 years of the ultra wealthy destroying our planet for their profits.
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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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How to Learn Under Threat
On trying to get an education while the world falls apart and the apparent folly despite its daily necessity.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 