The Marionette’s Strings
Imagine that you are in the front row at a marionette show when the puppet starts swinging out to kick you. Well, it’s just a little thing. It doesn’t hurt…
The Miracle of Mr. Beast
I’ll be honest, I had never heard of Mr. Beast about 6 months ago. I still don’t know anything about him except that he generates a lot of content, and…
Or Should They?
Andrew Tate is a person with whom I have many strong agreements and many strong disagreements. He once said that he likes to phrase things to deliberately upset the people…
I Can’t Refute Brilliant Socialists
Who watches the watchers? Well, naturally the watcher watchers watch the watchers. Who watches the watcher watchers? Well, naturally the watcher watcher watchers watch the watcher watchers. Who watches the…
Your Feelings Are Your Problem
When I was a kid, I was a little “yes man”. I did what I was told and, to this day, have never really had a rebellious phase. I grew…
Explaining Alcohol
Don’t ask me to track what sequence of thoughts led to my pondering this, but recently I was thinking about how I might talk about alcohol to kids. It’s an…
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,…