Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was a couple of days ago, but I’m still feeling the holiday spirit, such as it is. Thanksgiving is a good holiday wrapped in a bad holiday. It’s a time for coming together and taking stock of the many…
Tag Politics
Love of Money
The saying that the love of money is the root of all evil is both very useful and very misleading. It is a specific case of a principle that one can easily generalize: The love of means over the ends…
Aftermath
President Trump. President Donald fucking Trump. The last few days have been strange. There was a kind of trick we played on each other as kids, where we’d hold one fist on the other person’s head, hit it lightly with…
War Stories
America has a relationship with violence that is, let’s say, a little too friendly. That’s not to say that the American mindset is violent necessarily, that we are predisposed to do violence, but that so much of our outlook is…