Living within the truth
Living within the truth by refusing to inhabit the lies. Red America's achilles heel. Full employment for Flippy. More.
View ArticleThe return of Debbie Downer
I was kind of a “Debbie Downer” yesterday, wasn’t I? Well hold on. It may get worse. Writing of Amazon killing Big Box which killed Mom & Pop, and what peril that leaves us in, made me reflect once...
View ArticleTrump & Russia
Featuring my evolution on Trump and Russia, followed by some shorts, three of them with trigger warning.
View ArticleSaturday, 8/5/17
Stagnant versus permanent; two on trans; asymptotically approaching open border; my take on Trump, July 2011.
View ArticleMore on the Google Memo & Firing
Google’s auto-da-fé SJW logic The paradox of diversity dogma 1 Michael Brendan Dougherty identifies James Damore’s Google memo as a sort of 95 Theses and, tacitly, Google’s response as a sort of...
View ArticleWednesday, 8/9/17
Skip to #4 if you can't take any more GoogleMemo, even really good stuff: 4. Mama didn't flinch. 5. Glen Campbell didn't flinch, either. More …
View ArticleSaturday 8/19/17
Three on the Internet of Things, Three of Politics or Legalia, and two personal appreciations of Protestants.
View ArticleMay the dogma live loudly within you
I'm learning that there's a lot to rant about besides politics.
View ArticleTuesday, 10/10/17
Apologies today Libertarians today Hollywood tomorrow Onward toward Mars! Real pluralism Weinstein’s ambitious enablers Christianity Today Tweetables 1 For years now, any time a public figure in this...
View ArticleWednesday, 11/29/17
A potpourri, including some dot-connecting between Roy Moore and the Project Veritas failed sting.
View ArticleTuesday, 12/12/17
Turning flesh to words, math to music, and knowing nothing to a virtue.
View ArticleLossy compression
I just (when I wrote; not when this was released) finished reading two blogs and a New Atlantis article, all three related. They individually and collectively hit me so powerfully that I have scheduled...
View ArticleSigns of the times
James Howard Kunstler probably coined the term “techno-narcissism.” He definitely uses it more than anyone I know. A related term is “techno-triumphalism.” I believe he uses that, too. He definitely...
View ArticleCold comfort
More efficacious than gun control nostrums or anodyne “thoughts and prayers.”
View ArticlePersonal cybersecurity
You report on digital privacy, health and education technology. What are your most important tools for doing your job? We’re living in a surveillance economy where sites and apps can track and...
View ArticleDeferring to the data gods
Once upon a time, when we had a problem that was convoluted and unsettling to deal with, we’d figure out some way to medicalize it, sending it off to the doctor-god. We’re doing that with Artificial...
View ArticleChildren don’t do tragedy
I have spent the past few days watching old videos of the civil-rights era, the King era, and there is something unexpectedly poignant in them. When you see those involved in that momentous time, you...
View ArticleThe circular express
The curious correspondence between hardcore Calvinists and hardcore transgenderists.
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