Privacy For Rape Victims, Whether They Want it or Not
It is utterly unsurprising nobody considered the impact of the law on victims or to ensure it did not further strip them of their will.
Monthly Archive: August 2020
Murder Gandhi Takes the Trolley
The truth of humanity is that none of us, not even Gandhi, are capable of valuing all human life the same.
Portland, Oregon
The highly publicized ramping up of counter-protesting to the long-running Portland protests turned not only violent but deadly Saturday night.
Tenshot: Tales From The Loop
Tales From The Loop is mostly an anthology of interconnected stories involving a mysterious lab that is also the major employer in a relatively small town.
Paying the Tab for Peaceful Protest
Nothing the government does is free, even allowing you to protest. So learned a 18 year old in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Remembering Chadwick Boseman
I had difficulty sleeping last night. Chadwick Boseman was a legend who was taken way too young. He will be greatly missed.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Let Them Come
You are a guy with a machine gun and a handful of other stuff at your disposal and there are aliens attacking your position.
Downwind And East: The People And Cuisine Of Downeast Maine
Like the lobsters once were on the beaches, wild blueberries in Downeast Maine are everywhere, found on roadsides and driveways and in untended fields.
Saturday Spins: Dan Auerbach
An mix of rock, Americana, & 70’s style soul/psychedelic rock, from start to finish Dan Auerbach’s Waiting on a Song is truly a masterpiece.
How Colleges Can Actually Stay Open
This “abstinence only” model for college socialization is not only destined to fail, but also it ignores the mental and psychological strains
Help!! I Need Someone!
Women are not men, and because women are not men, a straightforward reversal of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope doesn’t work.
Weekend Plans Post: Winding The Summer Down
When we run our 5Ks, our meeting time is 7PM. About a minute of stretching and then we’re off like a herd of turtles. Run up the one road road that isn’t quite abandoned,...
The Critic Problem
I call the way I approach film as “The Meh Plateau.” Most movies do not suck, nor are most movies amazing.
Thursday Throughput: Polio Eradication Edition
Remember, a vaccine doesn’t have to give “sterilizing immunity”, in which you can’t catch the virus ever again. If it simply builds our resistance to the virus so that COVID-19 infections are mild, that will be enough.
From the Orlando Sentinel: Bucks boycott Magic game; all NBA playoff games now canceled (UPDATED)
From the Orlando Sentinel: The Milwaukee Bucks refused to play the Orlando Magic, protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake and sparking a boycott of all NBA playoff games Wednesday. After weeks devoted to protesting...
