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Feb­ru­ary 20, 2025 in Pol­i­tics

Unallied and Alone

In some deeply iron­ic ways, the anti-Amer­i­can alliances that are already begin­ning to form —…
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Feb­ru­ary 2, 2025 in Pol­i­tics

Turn Off the Faucet

We’re at a point in our his­to­ry where, I’ll be hon­est, I think we should…
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Jan­u­ary 29, 2025 in Aperçu

Unmoved by Cruelty

As the new administration’s “flood the zone” strat­e­gy con­tin­ues, break­ing as much as it possibly…
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Jan­u­ary 2, 2025 in Aperçu

Tips for the Dystopian Spiral

As we voy­age forth into anoth­er year of grad­ual, but steady civ­i­liza­tion­al dis­so­lu­tion, these are…
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Jan­u­ary 1, 2025 in Aperçu

Hereby Resolved XXV

Where­as numer­ous attempts to dis­lodge my tongue from my cheek have proven vain in the…
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Decem­ber 17, 2024 in Aperçu

Santa, Baby

I haven’t had any­thing that I tru­ly want, much less need, for years. I am…
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Decem­ber 17, 2024 in Aperçu

Returned

You may have noticed, or per­haps you were try­ing very delib­er­ate­ly not to, despair­ing voicelessly…
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Decem­ber 17, 2024 in Aperçu

Commended for Cowardice

Have you ever been praised for the very con­duct for which you are most disgusted…
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Novem­ber 22, 2024 in Aperçu

Thoroughly Used Up

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August 21, 2023 in Aperçu, Car­toons + Illus­tra­tions

Westinghouse

I recent­ly com­plet­ed a sev­er­al years long process of acquir­ing two iden­ti­cal 1950 West­ing­house BA-74…
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April 27, 2023 in Auto­bi­og­ra­phy, Psy­chol­o­gy

Humbugs All the Way Down

As I mud­dle along on the jour­ney through nascent mid­dle age, I find myself regularly…
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April 5, 2023 in Auto­bi­og­ra­phy

Too Many Weeks of Yes

Every day since the Fourth Sun­day in Lent has felt a bit like a slow-burn…
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Sep­tem­ber 1, 2022 in Pol­i­tics, Soci­ety, Thir­ty-Three

Expurgating Adult Neuroses

The coun­try con­tin­ues to roil over cocka­mamy con­tro­ver­sies in pub­lic school­ing … a few thoughts…
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April 9, 2022 in Thir­ty-Three

Authenticity is Horseshit

It is thor­ough­go­ing horse­shit and we should proac­tive­ly hate, loathe, and abom­i­nate the term’s every…
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Decem­ber 6, 2021 in Aperçu, Phi­los­o­phy

Evergreen

I’m cer­tain­ly not alone in won­der­ing what the response might be to cer­tain pecu­liar human…
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June 6, 2020 in Phi­los­o­phy, Psy­chol­o­gy

Float Betwixt Vice and Virtue

In terms of innate poten­tial­i­ty, we are a total­ly depraved species. I have lit­tle trouble…
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May 15, 2020 in Archi­tec­ture + Objects, Phi­los­o­phy

Communing with Our Environs

Some­one once described my rela­tion­ship to the house as one of root­ed entwine­ment, that it…
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May 8, 2020 in Sci­ence, Soci­ety

Miss the Disease for the Trees

Do you know what I do when there’s real­ly dam­ag­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion being tout­ed, not the…
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May 6, 2020 in Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence

Living is Dying?

It’s tempt­ing and some­times even dark­ly humor­ous to call liv­ing dying, but in truth when…
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May 6, 2020 in Aperçu, Coro­natide

Unnurtured Nature

As we pon­der human nature and our abil­i­ty to com­ply, one way­ward thought. We really…
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His Life Dithyrambic

Con­fes­sion­al and reflec­tive vers­es revis­it­ing my life — its pains, trau­mas, plea­sures, befud­dle­ments, clar­i­ties, incon­gruities, and good fortunes.

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