The Problematic Heterodoxy of Cisnormativity
I have a lot of very left-leaning and a lot of very right-leaning people among my friends and family. And last night, I had a dream that I had an…
The Rise of Naziism
I was listening to a podcast discussing the collapse of democracy in the Weimar Republic and the analogy was extremely apt. As the people got more and more unsatisfied on…
All Politicians Are The Same
I was chatting with my cousin recently and he has lived his entire life in a liberal cocoon. Dad's a liberal. Mom and sister have both worked for the Democratic…
A Ming Vase
Imagine a Ming vase, a priceless historical artifact that you, so fortunately, have come to possess. But it is in China. If you want to get it back home safely,…
#freethenipple: Sex, Nudity, and Semantics
This is Bradley Cooper. If you ask me, he is the most attractive man in the world. Those eyes, that smile… Seriously, there are a lot of attractive men out…
Evolutionary Semantics
Homo Erectus evolved from Australopithicus. Homo sapiens evolved from Homo Erectus. If you just take these boxes as given, black and white, finite definitions then you would have to conclude…
How To Be An Evolutionary
You’ve seen a low resolution digital picture before, right? You can kind of tell what you’re looking at, but the whole thing is composed of a bunch of ugly, unnatural…
The Labour Theory of Value Corrected
If I spend 10 hours of labor polishing a turd, who will be willing to pay me fair wages for those 10 hours? Suffice to say, that critique does not…
Greed is Good
What a divisive sentence! That’s Gordon Gecko’s catchphrase, the archetypal unscrupulous capitalist. Some say it’s the catchphrase of capitalism itself. Greed is good! People use that as an excuse to…
The Devil On Your Shoulder
Imagine you are preparing to build a house. You and your best friend have been working on the design for years. You’ve finalized the blueprints, you’ve picked out all the…