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October 2026

October 02, 2026

Chess Grifters, Chinese Rooms, and AI

LLM AI systems do not "understand" anything. So don't be a sucker. As Harry the...

March 2025

March 13, 2025

Comfort The Dying; We’re All Dying

It's a simple syllogism: Comfort the dying. Everyone is dying. Therefore, comfort everyone. In this...

November 2024

November 05, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: Trickster at Samhain & Election Day

The Trickster generally doesn't make trouble so much as reveal the trouble inherent in the...

September 2024

September 22, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Warrior at Mabon

Of all the archetypes we're considering, the Warrior may be both the most problematic and...

August 2024

August 01, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Captain at Lughnasadh

The Captain is in the field or on the ship with those he leads, in...

June 2024

June 20, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The King At Midsummer

He does not command, he is not a conqueror. Instead the King is the conduit...

May 2024

May 01, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Preacher at Beltane

The Preacher does not issue orders or set himself above those he speaks to in...

March 2024

March 19, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Lover at Ostara

The Lover we are considering here is not necessarily a romantic or a sexual figure....

February 2024

February 01, 2024

Masculine Archetypes: The Healer (Shaman/Smith) at Imbolc

But unlike the archetypal Magician, who is isolated in study of his art, the Healer...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Masculine Archetypes: The Magician at Midwinter

The archetypal Magician is the keeper of hidden knowledge, the master of special skills and...

December 07, 2023

Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right

Mom always said -- and quite likely your mom said it too -- that two...

May 2023

May 11, 2023

The System Killed Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny, whether he acted reasonably and killed by accident or recklessly and committed manslaughter,...

February 2023

February 10, 2023

Eulogy For A Difficult Brother

How do we eulogize people who were difficult to others and to themselves? And how...

June 2022

June 23, 2022

What We Owe The Babies

"It's what we owe the past. What we owe those who invented speech, writing, mathematics,...

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...

October 2021

October 27, 2021

The Serenity of Shikata Ga Nai

You can't solve the halting problem, you can't make someone love you, and you can't...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Dionysus Will F**k You Up

Dionysus can take you places and give you power and freedom if you respect him...

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...

October 2020

October 15, 2020

Karma Is Not Justice

But there are reasons that the spiritual traditions that have achieved power in the world...

June 2020

June 10, 2020

Police Violence: Seeing the Fnords

The fnords are the cliche phrases and stock tropes that obscure the truth without actually...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

Shop Like A Warrior

But on my shopping trips over the past few weeks I've been struck by how...

December 2019

December 16, 2019

Violence as a Koan

At first glance the 1980s action movie Roadhouse seems a world away from the eight-century-old...

September 2019

September 03, 2019

The Last Minute Still Counts

Because getting something done at the last minute, is still getting it done.

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....

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Teaching Within Learning Within Teaching Within Learning

The idea that one reaches mastery and then stops learning and starts teaching might be...

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...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Pagans Are Wild

Who's going to find what we need? The wild ones. The experimenters. The spiritual mad...

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...