

The Least Cheerful Easter Song Ever
Bob Dylan has been on my brain lately, ever since I began to write what I was supposed to be a quick and easy comment on the new movie...
Apr 22, 20254 min read
Garbage In Garbage Out
What follows is a case study in media polling that we should not trust, but rather treat as our enemy. It makes a few points about health...
Apr 1, 202510 min read


The Dad Bod Theory of Education
Like many of my fellow citizen/consumers groomed by algorithms that feed us our personal news, I like it when algorithms feed me stories...
Mar 6, 20258 min read


Roberta Flack, RIP
Even if I can't stop tinkering with all the half-written posts I've started about our degraded country, at least I can give my respects...
Feb 25, 20252 min read
untitled poem
(Part of a thread to share poems or poetry-adjacent writing, as discussed here .) We cannot say how this cascading wreck of complacent...
Jan 18, 20251 min read
The "Demonic Jezebel," Media Spin, and Right-Sizing Fears About Christian Nationalism
Despite "everyone knowing" how Christian Nationalism (CN) is growing by leaps and bounds -- in numbers and raw power -- I myself get...
Oct 19, 20248 min read