The ACLU is trash

by | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary

Helping Amber Heard Was Just the Start of the ACLU’s Problems – The Atlantic: In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, a community populated by Holocaust survivors. But in 2018, following the ACLU’s...

Trump and COVID-19

by | Oct 2, 2020 | Essays

[This essay was also crossposted to Facebook on October 2, 2020.] If your response to the news that President Trump has COVID-19 was “it’s a hoax” then this essay is directed to you. Given all the gaslighting and lying from the president, skepticism...

Why I’m leaving Facebook

by | Aug 2, 2018 | News & Commentary

https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/…Facebook didn’t intend for any of this to happen. It just wanted to connect people. But there is a thread running from Perkins’ death to religious violence in Myanmar and the...

Aziz and Consent

by | Jan 27, 2018 | Essays

NSFW WARNING: There is no possible way to discuss the following without using adult language and talking about sex in graphic terms. Enjoy. It may be the curse of all aged human beings to watch the world they knew in their youth fade away as they begin to bemoan the...