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January 2019

January 09, 2019

Heathen Sailors, LGBT Shintōists, And Sexy Biceps

Welcome to the first Random Wednesday of 2019, a randomly appearing feature of short bits...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

The Return Of The Son Of Random Wednesdays

It's been a while since we've had a Random Wednesday post. But it's Pagan New...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

War Crimes As Usual, United Horror Stories, And Big Tent Buddhism

Time once again for our mid-week random selection of stories. War Crimes As Usual It...

April 07, 2017

Social Rituals, Assembly-Line Confession, and Cosmological Confusion

And so what is currently thought to be 68% of the universe may suddenly disappear,...

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 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...

March 16, 2017

Dirty Fighting, The Normalization of Disease, And Privacy Sold Separately

Presented for your consideration, our usual Wednesday round of three stories I found interesting this...

March 09, 2017

Putting It Down, Butt-Kicking Girls, and The Return of Samurai Jack

Speaking of martial arts, one of the great fictional martial arts heroes is about to...

March 02, 2017

March Blooms, Antisemitism, And Seven Pillars Of Wisdom

Welcome to another Random Wednesday here on The Zen Pagan. Today's episode is being written...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

A New Job, Fatherly Advice, and the Lottery

I didn't forget that a lottery is a tax on people who are bad at...

February 17, 2017

The Streisand Effect, The Vegan Agenda, And Sending Me To Japan

Hello friends. This week's dose of randomness comes a little late due to your humble...

February 09, 2017

Confused Fathers, Messed Up Lives, And Taking Credit

But we all have messed-up stuff going on in our lives, even the great spiritual...

February 02, 2017

Orwell On Nationalism, Learning to Receive, And The Patheos Pagan Kerfuffle

"Notes on Nationalism" is not just relevant to the resurgence of traditional nationalism we are...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Random Wednesday: Captain America’s Love of Free Speech, Inauguration Ratings, and Police Homicide

Captain America explicitly takes a stand for free speech over Nazi punching, saying "Don't you...

January 18, 2017

Random Wednesday: Leave The Lights On, Hating Yourself, and Cops For Criminal Justice Reform

Today I made the random decision to leave my holiday lights on until Imbolc. (It's...

January 12, 2017

Random Wednesday: The Woman in the Moon, The Awfulness of Jeff Sessions, and Mystic Plumbers

Rather than allowing some to only contemplate the infinite and others to only fix drains,...

January 05, 2017

Random Wednesday: Maternal Homecoming, Productivity in the New Year, and Unraveling “Russian Hackers”

Everybody loves Russian hackers these days. Democrats get to blame them for Clinton's embarrassing loss...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Random Wednesday: Solstice Candles, Family Dinners, and 52 Weeks of Creativity

Welcome to the last Random Wednesday of the year. Farewell 2016, don't let the door...

December 15, 2016

Random Wednesday: Seasonal Music, Non-seasonal Music, and The Zen Of Rick And Morty

Welcome to another Random Wednesday episode of The Zen Pagan. This week, just a few...

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...

December 01, 2016

Random Wednesday: Fake Fake News, Punk On Fire, Buddhists For Trump

"Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him." -- Ernest Hemingway

November 2016

November 24, 2016

Random Wednesday: Thanksgiving Reruns, An Old Revelation, Self-Defense and Self-Care

And then it hit me, the great truth I was there to learn, with all...

November 17, 2016

Random Wednesday: Universal Income, The Alt-Right, Red Scare

Time for another Random Wednesday here on The Zen Pagan -- this week's dose of...

November 10, 2016

Random Wednesday: No Change of Heart, Hope You Voted, Planet Without Laughter

If you didn't cast your ballot because you didn't want to vote for any of...

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...