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September 2026

September 14, 2026

Jason Arday, Con Man

Academia's self-image as a force for justice and progress left it vulnerable to Jason Arday,...

May 2024

May 05, 2024

Deconstructing the Bears Vs. Men Memeplex

In this memeplex we can find misandry, a romantic misview of nature, a base rate...

June 2023

June 12, 2023

The Unabomber and the Escalation of Disorder

Kaczynski was not just any violent revolutionary, overconfident in the rightness of his solutions to...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Artistic Opinions Aren’t Religious Virtues

I am fairly certain that, should my life ever be judged by the gods, these...

September 2022

September 06, 2022

Netflix’s Sandman Is Just Okay

Netflix's adaption of Neil Gaiman's Sandman is...okay. Good, but not as excellent as it might...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Smoking Out The Pagan Gatekeepers

Be wild. Disrespect convention. Steal ideas, steal fire from the gods, steal the gods themselves....

November 2021

November 20, 2021

The Pathetic Life And Death of Joseph Rosenbaum

Dumped into a riot zone by our pathetic-in-the-inadequate-sense mental health care system, unable to obtain...

August 2021

August 01, 2021

Yoda, Hui Neng, and the Sacred Texts

Star Wars is heavily influenced by the mythology of the samurai; and the philosophy of...

May 2021

May 06, 2021

Ouijaphobia! From Swedenborg to the Ouija Board

Thus the Ouija board, with roots in Swedenborgian and Spiritualist philosophies that put a benevolent...

March 2021

March 01, 2021

No, That’s Not An Odal Rune

That's obviously not an Odal rune. It's a square stage set at 45 degrees, with...

February 2021

February 20, 2021

When Bad People Die

Rush Limbaugh's angry, nationalistic faux populism paved the way for Trumpism, and I will not...

January 2021

January 18, 2021

Am I Insurrecting Or Not?

When fallacies about the ends justifying the means are set aside and we must judge...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Yule Movies: Returning from the Darkness

So as we find ourselves in a darker Yule than usual, remember that you have...

August 2019

August 04, 2019

Imposition of order = Escalation of Disorder

"What should we do? We have to do SOMETHING!!!" we yell, in our pain and...

July 2019

July 28, 2019

Minds Do Change And That’s Magic

Magicians seek to alter the consciousness, change the minds, of other people all the time....

July 19, 2019

Space Is For Robots (For Now)

So it pains me to say this, but it's true: beyond Earth orbit, space is...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

How The Gods And Heroes Operate

The exploits of superheroes can inspire the merely mortal citizens of their comic book and...

January 2019

January 26, 2019

Patton Oswalt’s Twitter Act Of Kindness

There is a Buddhist practice of viewing each person as having been your mother or...

January 21, 2019

Masculinity On The Razor’s Edge

But it seems to me that if we're going to talk about the problems of...

January 20, 2019

MAGA Teens, The Native Elder, And Our Projections

Did a teen being dumb about sharing space become, in our national insanity, the screen...

January 01, 2019

Mastering Time And Space With The Bullet Journal

Just as it is a genuine act of witchcraft to give a friend with an...

December 2018

December 02, 2018

George H.W. Bush And The Banality Of Evil

I woke up yesterday morning to the news that President Bush -- the first President...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Sandman At 30: The Birth Of A Pantheon

Deities are either invented, created, or discovered. And that is a process of story-telling. We...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

Murder At The Tree Of Life

A few years ago, I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was something we'd gotten...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Kavanaugh, Cosby, and the Full Rashomon

Kavanaugh's defenders say "he's not that sort of man". But we would have said the...

June 2018

June 08, 2018

The Temple, The Fire, And The Flood

I spent Memorial Day weekend at Playa Del Fuego, the East Coast regional Burn (Burning...

May 2018

May 13, 2018

The Catonsville 9: What Real Resistance Looks Like

I live in Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb on the southwest side of Baltimore. Catonsville has...

May 08, 2018

“Cobra Kai” And Toxic Masculinity

So I'm pretty much in the bullseye of the target demographic for YouTube Red's new...

May 01, 2018

Someone’s Prom Dress Is Not Your Culture

Well, the Internet is all upset over a dress again. But this time it's not...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

What are your #Mythstruck4?

There's an Internet meme going around under the hashtag "#filmstruck4". The idea, initially posted by...