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March 2018

March 12, 2018

Amok In America

The fault, dear Americans, is not in our guns, but in ourselves, that we are...

January 2018

January 28, 2018

Alone, No One Wins Freedom: An Appreciation of Ursula K. Le Guin

I was nine years old, give or take a year or two, and I was...

December 2017

December 10, 2017

Thoughts On The Great American Sexual Harassment Phase Change Of 2017

As some try to impose order on the inherently chaotic world of sex, romance, and...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

Doctor Who: Continuity and Gender Politics

But we fans of long-running franchises also value internal consistency, a.k.a. continuity. Of course no...

June 2017

June 07, 2017

Reason, Social Justice, and Dionysian Frenzy

No disrespect to Dionysus, but social justice is not a job to which you send...

April 2017

April 22, 2017

What Science Is And Isn’t

So let us join with Uncle Walt in saying "Hurrah for positive science!" But let...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Icelandic Heathens Rising, Cultural Appropriation Violence, And Free Software And Sexual Freedom

The idea of "cultural appropriation" has once again provoked violence from someone who decided they...

March 27, 2017

Zen And The Art Of…Obeying The Rules?

To some extent, “stability” means “resistance to change". To change an unjust system you may...

March 23, 2017

Bad Maps, Say His Name, And Stopping A Street Fight

Our usual mid-week selection of quick takes. Bad Maps: Gall-Peters is no cartographic hero Breathless...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

Dive Bars and the Ghost Ship Fire

To deal with social problems of all sorts, we need collaborative harm reduction policies, not...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Ethnic Pride Does Not Justify White Nationalism

The ethnic identities that our families pass along to us are part of our lived...

November 25, 2016

Why Fascism Is Bad

The allure of fascism is that you, friend, can be part of that glorious struggle!...

November 17, 2016

Luke Cage and the Hero’s Journey

And when I watched Cage what I found was more than a tale of a...

November 03, 2016

Won’t Get Fooled Again: Magic, Imagination, and Political-Artistic Liberation

Every bit of progress begins with an act of Imagination. Before slaves can fight for...

November 02, 2016

Random Wednesday: My Mom, Luke Cage, Pit Bulls, and Cheap Bourbon

This is, by some reckoning, the "Pagan New Year", and new years are a good...

October 2016

October 09, 2016

The Burners and The Pagans

Do we perhaps see some parallel evolution here with Pagan festivals? Could a Pagan event...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

Star Trek: Pagans in Space

Trek gave viewers the elfin-eared Vulcan Mr. Spock, who projected a logical detachment from destructive...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

Flirting Without Being A Creep

But that makes it extra disappointing when men new to this culture, inebriated by this...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

Affirming One Is Not Erasure of Another

There is a fundamental confusion at work in many people's notions about their identity: that...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

Can We — Should We — Forgive A Monster?

Of course, we won't do that. There's too much blood and too much anger. We'll...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

What Would Luke Skywalker Do?

Forget the lousy prequels and shun the "special editions" with their pointless effects and plot...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

“The Walking Dead”, Meta-Narrative, The Nature of Horror, and Human Sacrifice

Horror might be defined as the subgenre of speculative fiction that sets out to disturb...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

Why Batman v. Superman Matters

Batman and Superman matter, because the tales of the superheroes are our modern myths. By...