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It has been a while since I posted on this here blog so I figure it is time that I discuss a subject of critical importance! And that subject today will be the flags of New Zealand. New Zealand is a...
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I am a natural-born luddite. My mother fondly remembers me tossing my booties at her sewing machine as an infant.1 My irrational hatred and fear of technology is profound, but not without just cause....
View ArticleWe ask the tough questions
Some some of you may have heard that story about the venerable Canadian history magazine The Beaver changing its name because of the confusion it caused over exactly what kind of magazine it was, and...
View ArticleThe Three Lies of Politics
Julius Caesar once said, “Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.” Of course, nobody understood him, because he was speaking some crazy moon-man language instead of English, but it turns out that...
View ArticleThe Incentive Plan
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about how important it is to keep taxes low on the rich. Not, as we all might suspect, because all the Congressmen saying it have taken somewhere in the neighborhood of...
View ArticleA More Brutally Accurate Summation of Geraldo Rivera’s Words
Every time I hear about Geraldo Rivera’s comments on the Trayvon Martin shootings, I always picture him talking to the victim’s family. I picture him sitting there, an expression of Sincere Concern on...
View ArticleFrom the “How To Be A Decent Human Being” File…
It’s bad enough that Daniel Tosh started talking about how funny rape jokes are. I’ll admit, that’s about the level of “humor” you’d expect from a man whose TV series consists of him showing YouTube...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Anyone Not Planning To Vote For Barack Obama
The 2012 presidential campaign is coming down to its last few days, for those of you who have just recovered from an eighteen-month coma and have immediately decided to check out this website (and why...
View ArticleI Co-Signed
I just added my name to John Scalzi’s pledge (original pledge here, place for others to co-sign here) to refuse to attend any convention that does not have a clearly defined, well-publicized,...
View ArticleWhat I Have To Say About “Gamergate”
There’s a lot of stuff flying around the Internet right now about “Gamergate”, a supposed scandal at the supposed heart of supposed gaming that supposed gamers are supposedly crusading against. As you...
View ArticleThe California Drought
I was reading this morning about Tom Selleck (for those of you unfamiliar with any reasons why anyone would still care about Tom Selleck some seventeen years after ‘Magnum, P.I.’ went off the air, he’s...
View ArticleWhy It Upsets Me When Journalists Use “Mentally Ill”
This is a conversation that we’ve been having a lot lately, due to the shootings in Roseburg, but I want to make it clear: It is not only in the context of a mass shooting that I object to journalists...
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