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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,...

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...

December 2024

December 31, 2024

Fixing the Mailbox: A Holiday Omen

So I'm making that my theme for 2025: communication. Let the way be opened, not...

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...

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...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Symbolic Magic And The Dead In Arlington

We are in the realm of symbolic magic dealing with the dead, and should tread...

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...

May 2023

May 29, 2023

People Are Like Firewood

The only way to precisely engineer a wood fire is to pelletize the wood, to...

May 11, 2023

The System Killed Jordan Neely

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

January 2023

January 02, 2023

Assemble: A Sigil for 2023

American society is dis-integrating, becoming disconnected. That's killing people. It's urgent that we find ways...

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,...

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....

December 2021

December 18, 2021

Thirteenth Amendment Day

Perhaps when we wish each other "Happy Holidays" in recognition of the number of festivals...

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...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

1917: The Real Start of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

British imperialism shaped how Zionism developed, betrayed the Arabs of Palestine, and is a root...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Happy Walpurgisnacht!

It conveniently happened that Walpurga was canonized on May 1 of 870 (or so), when...

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...

November 2020

November 04, 2020

The Coming American Troubles

Rather than an 1860s style civil war, I foresee something more like the Irish Troubles:...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

The Zen Pagan Endorses Bread and Roses

Even if the Bread and Roses Party itself is never heard from again after this...

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 15, 2020

Honeysuckle and Fireflies

Yes, the plague is killing thousands! and Yes, the oppressors are brutal! and Yes, the...

June 10, 2020

Police Violence: Seeing the Fnords

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

April 2020

April 05, 2020

A Tarot Reading For The (April) Fool

If we accept the Way of the Fool, we can keep perfect hope even at...

March 2020

March 08, 2020

Paganism and Countercultures

We might find each of these groups sympathetic. Artists, poets, nature lovers, advocates for alternative...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Frederick Douglass’s Root Magic

Given the significance of Douglass to the abolition movement, this fight with Covey might fairly...

February 01, 2020

Lady Liberty, American Goddess

She is the totem of the United States, and if her attributes seem contradictory and...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Thanksgiving Isn’t Colonialist…

The 1621 celebration was not identified by anyone as the "First Thanksgiving" until 1841, when...

October 2019

October 19, 2019

PantheaCon, Politics, and Pagan Festival Policies

The Pagan community is growing more diverse. This is a good thing! But it means...