I look around the world today and wonder just how human our billionaire overlords really are.
Hey, Alexa
Yesterday I hit the button on my iPhone and said “Hey, Alexa.”
Inauguration Day: Dignity Returns to the Oligarchy
“Better than Trump” isn’t the same as “better.”
Yes, Folks, Jill Biden is a Doctor
For eight or nine centuries the doctorate of philosophy was eminently respectable, while the practice of medicine was still developing.
11.4.2020: American Democracy To-Do List
This will get us started. Did I leave anything out?
I’m Glad I Wasn’t Black Today
What can I say that won’t be proof of my privilege? Let’s be honest: right now, and in the near future, I get to be privileged white man on parade.
Dear Conservatives: It’s Judgment Day
This might be a good moment to break out your New Testament, review the parts in red, and consider the unsettling possibility that Jesus meant what he said.
Trump’s “Failure” to Denounce White Supremacy: Journalistic Malpractice in the First Degree
You at the Times … you’ve got something orange on your face. No, down a little, on your chin…
Was I Wrong About the Denver Police Department?
Did the cops take forever because they were incompetent or because they were okay with brown people carving up other brown people?
Do Billionaires Get a Bad Rap?
If the people with all the money are so rarely good human beings, it says something dire about the system that produces them and it has pointed implications for policy reform.
CNN: We false equivalence, you decide.
The people who want to keep us alive are as much at fault as the people who lock kids in cages and think Nazis are very fine people and who don’t care if we live or die. What was it Hunter said?
What conclusions would I draw about you if I didn’t know you?
When you say things like “people dying is unfortunate, but this destruction of property is unacceptable” instead of “property damage is unfortunate, but the killing of innocent people is unacceptable” … what should we think?
