culture The Safest Hands... If your measure of evil says a mild-mannered Canadian psychologist who's studied fascism and speaks out against it regularly IS EQUIVALENT TO an ACTUAL Nazi, then one might suggest that your yardstick is off. Just a titch.
Getting Started The Tweakening So, a few weeks ago, in an earlier post, I mentioned how this is running on a self-hosted machine.... If you're curious, here's how it's currently set up.
culture Watch Your Head [A] culture that no longer values free speech as a cultural value will eventually lose sight of the reasons why speech is protected, and will inevitably then take steps to curtail and restrict speech.
Pressure and Interest So a few days ago, I talked about that hideous pressure - the pressure that you release a little bit of when you get angry about something you've read online, and then you release a bit of your anger someplace else, and it gets you just a little bit of
That Hideous Pressure One of the columnists I used to read quite a bit related a story about how he got into the business of column writing, and got the advice of someone who had been doing that for years. "How can I write a column twice a week?" was the question. How
culture Engaging Writing ...When you’re writing, you always have at least an audience of one. And if you pay attention and let that person have a say, they are very good at calling you on your BS....
Social Media Social (Media) Distancing It's been about six weeks since I put up a post on Facebook that I was going to drastically reduce my participation on that site. And it's going pretty well. I hardly have the shakes any more. I should probably check my blood pressure, I'm sure that's gone down. I
Purpose What's up with the new digs? I have been growing increasingly alarmed at the direction of the country. I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of people have decided to give up talking to each other and trying to reach a consensus, and instead have elected to demonize people who disagree with them and
Hello World! I should put some lorum ipsum text here, get really old school with it. This is a blank slate, a new place, because I'm out of practice, and it's time to get back on the stick.
