I’ve been a huge fan of RSS for a long time; over the last few months I’ve been think of RSS feeds more and more as a way to get…
pre-2026
Fuck Mike Pence and the Trump he rode in on
From Vanity Fair, but reported elsewhere: The Trump Administration Wants to Define Gender as Biological Sex at Birth I’m upset enough about this that I don’t have anything coherent to…
What Kavanaugh means for evangelical/Christian fundamentalist voters
You no longer have an excuse. In 2016, evangelical and Christian fundamentalist leaders said it was okay to vote for Trump, because he would give you the courts. You’ve got…
I just watched a wonderful critique of The Hobbit movies
A few years ago (2012 or 2013 I think?) there was a multipart YouTube series from a channel called “RedLetterMedia” that broke down all the reasons why the Star Wars…
I wish I could quit facebook
Whenever I start thinking about what my ideal social media platform would be, before long I realize I’m describing “my own website + RSS to follow others + email”
“The Iran Deal”
I’m more worried about the consequences of unilaterally pulling out of a peaceful nuclear deterrent deal – one that many inspectors said Iran was abiding by – than I was…
Oliver North
It seems strange that the NRA, chief proponents of the “good guy with a gun” myth, would appoint as president a person most famous for illegally supplying bad folks with…
Phrasing
I think I’ve figured out what bothers me about the phrases “this is not normal” and “don’t normalize this.” I’ve said for a while that if you listen to marginalized…
Everyone deserves a fair hearing
And that a “fair hearing” includes “suffering consequences for the wrongs you have done” And that a “fair hearing” does not include badgering non-white politicians for their birth certificates And…
Hearing complaints about California’s open primary
…and want to yell at the entire country that the solution is a ranked open primary, not closed party primaries.