top of page
Search
Apr 2, 20201 min read
Algorithm
I swear social media is some kind of malicious worldwide experiment to kill people’s ability to feel joy. I experience the following...
Jul 26, 20192 min read
World’s End
Look at this shit. These people are fucking idiots. Do they think that removing this shit from their site is going to somehow prevent us...
Mar 18, 20193 min read
Bedrock
This is a thank you post, so I’m going to say that first. To everyone who has ever left me a good Amazon review, who has ever emailed or...
Mar 17, 20192 min read
The Power To Do Nothing
When I hear that Apple is worth one trillion dollars it makes me want to scream. That is the kind of money that could buy everyone an...
May 18, 20181 min read
The Laughing Face
The Facebook post is about the slaughtered children in Texas today, and a Democratic Senate candidate going on the air to demand action....
Mar 22, 20182 min read
All Good Things
A friend of mine announced today that he has pancreatic cancer and is in hospice. And in that bombshell of a sentence, the word I debated...
Feb 15, 20182 min read
Next time
One of these times it’s going to be my kids. I’m going to hear the sirens and be choked by sick dread. I’m going to check the news and...
Dec 7, 20175 min read
Thoughts on Al Franken
I coached policy debate for about ten years, and in policy debate we had a thing called a “perceptual link.” That was a fancy term for...
Oct 2, 20172 min read
Vegas
Just drop your tribe for a second. Drop your political affiliations. It’s just you in the void. Do you think it’s a good idea to let the...
Sep 6, 20171 min read
Sea Level Rise
“Sea level rise” is such an innocuous phrase. It sounds like the coming in of the tide, like it will creep up on us slowly. Like we’ll be...
Aug 13, 20171 min read
Behold the Spade
We wake up in a new America today. We wake up in an America where violent terrorists roam the streets flying Nazi flags. This is not...
Jul 26, 20172 min read
Transgender People
Let me tell you a little secret about “transgender people.” It’s a two-part term. An adjective and a noun, and I’d like to talk about...
Feb 15, 20173 min read
The Knife’s Edge
Let’s take stock. My country now has an Executive branch which lost the popular vote and is likely compromised by a foreign government –...
Dec 7, 20166 min read
The Tsunami
I read an article in the National Journal this morning (thank you C. Bates, an intelligent person from a different political and...
Aug 15, 20163 min read
An Open Letter to Gabby Douglas
I’ve never met you, and for that reason I hesitated to write this. But it occurred to me that the people who think they have some...
Nov 11, 20146 min read
An Open Letter To Kirk Cameron About The War On Christmas
Hey Kirk. I just watched the preview for your new movie Saving Christmas, coming this weekend to select theaters nationwide. I’m not...
Feb 12, 20132 min read
Minnesota Businessman Thinks Gays Are Normal People, Don’t Deserve All This Bullshit
I keep seeing headlines like this one. They get posted on Facebook or wherever, and I see one after the other after the other. The thing...
Dec 15, 20124 min read
There Are No Words
I can’t describe the feelings that the events in Sandy Hook have triggered in me. There are so many simultaneously that they’ve just...
Dec 3, 20121 min read
Day One
The desk in my study looked different when I got home from work today. It’s not just the place I play Skyrim anymore. It’s not just the...
Nov 21, 20123 min read
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After much deliberation, I settled on the title for this post as a series of exclamation points, because for me, no words can really do...
bottom of page