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Dear America, A Response
A Response to the Very Intense Republican Response to Joseph Robinette Biden’s Super Feisty State of the Union Address to Congress. Good day, America. I…
Mar 8
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December 2023
Casual Cruelty
The tragic headline hit hard: “Israel troops mistakenly killed 3 hostages in Gaza.” Three victims of Hamas’ October 7 attack had managed to escape only…
Dec 23, 2023
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November 2023
Thanksgiving Fights Back
I love the simplicity of Thanksgiving. You gather with family and friends. You pile mountains of food and drink on the table. And you gorge. Sure, you…
Nov 23, 2023
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October 2023
Cancel Culture is Bad! (Unless It's Against Someone We Hate!)
It began with horror, a terrorist invasion by Hamas, which killed over 1300 Israelis, mostly civilians, including women, children, and the elderly. Then…
Oct 18, 2023
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It's All a Conspiracy: The Gaza Attacks
I was staying off Twitter because the Israel-Gaza tragedy was just too sad, but I took a peek, and this is the first thing I saw, and now I need to vent…
Oct 7, 2023
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September 2023
I Feel Unsafe
[EDIT: Rethinking Education has issued an apology/addendum to their original statement, which I’ll cover at the bottom of my essay.] The statement from…
Sep 24, 2023
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Body Counts
This may be the dumbest topic I’ve ever written about. “Body count” discourse has been trending on Twitter, and sadly, it’s not about serial killer…
Sep 6, 2023
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August 2023
Charles Blow Preaches Racial Separation
Segregation is back, baby! In an August 18 New York Times audio essay, Blow asked his fellow black Americans to return to the South to “significantly…
Aug 28, 2023
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An Obama Murder Conspiracy
We live in the golden age of conspiracies. The Internet—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter—facilitates the spread of insanity and hokum at the speed of light…
Aug 16, 2023
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Steelmanning Woke
Too much has been written about “woke” (including too much by me, like here and here). I’ve deplored this constant talk (“It’s time to put a fork in…
Aug 8, 2023
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July 2023
Oppenheimer: A reaction
Unavoidable minor spoilers ahead, but I’ll try to be reasonably vague. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is layered (like every Nolan film?), slicing its…
Jul 25, 2023
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The Distorted Story of Florida's African American History Curriculum
“‘Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial’” Um, what? According to the Florida Phoenix, Ron DeSantis’s Board of Education…
Jul 22, 2023
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