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2017-02-01T01:58:16-04:00

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Playing With Paint (Acrylic & Watercolor, “52 Makeup” Week 4)

Last updated on: February 1, 2017 at 1:58 am By Tom Swiss

While I'm far from "perfect", whatever I do is as natural as starshine or a thunderstorm. The crow does not compare it's caw to the songs of other birds. Read more

2017-01-29T15:41:26-04:00

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Hospitality Is Sacred

Last updated on: January 29, 2017 at 3:41 pm By Tom Swiss

The Trump administration's recent acts, leaving refugees and immigrants stranded, are a national disgrace -- literally, a "dis-grace", a failure to abide by the ethical grace of hospitality. Read more

2017-01-27T01:16:54-04:00

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Welcome To Tiny Train World

Last updated on: January 27, 2017 at 1:16 am By Tom Swiss

That's part of Tiny Train World: every story is subject to change, with past versions being stuffed down the Memory Hole at the click of a mouse. Read more

2017-01-26T01:43:37-04:00

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

Last updated on: January 26, 2017 at 1:43 am By Tom Swiss

Captain America explicitly takes a stand for free speech over Nazi punching, saying "Don't you realize that in your attack, you've attacked your own freedom as well?" Read more

2017-09-05T22:14:59-04:00

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Fighting Evil Doesn’t Make You Good

Last updated on: September 5, 2017 at 10:14 pm By Tom Swiss

This notion that it's fine and good to assault people we decide are Nazis is disturbingly similar to the idea of glorious struggle that fuels fascism. Fascism tells people that they face an existential threat that can only be met with extraordinary and violent measures. It invites them to put rationality aside and jump on board the wave of emotion. Violent anti-fascism -- "antifa" -- simply casts fascists in the role of existential threat and invites people to join an anti-rational violent leftism. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

2017-01-22T20:38:01-04:00

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“Metal and Velvet” (Digital Art, “52 Makeup” Week 3)

Last updated on: January 22, 2017 at 8:38 pm By Tom Swiss

This started as such a photo, a few objects from the "Metal and Wire - Non-Electrical" box in my tool and hardware closet -- the original photo is below. Read more

2017-01-18T23:44:17-04:00

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

Last updated on: January 18, 2017 at 11:44 pm By Tom Swiss

Today I made the random decision to leave my holiday lights on until Imbolc. (It's one string of LEDs, very little power.) I usually turn them off after my birthday party, which was Saturday, but I found myself depressed by the thought. It seems like we can use a little extra light right now. Read more

2017-01-17T01:23:41-04:00

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MLK Failed, Make Way For MLK

Last updated on: January 17, 2017 at 1:23 am By Tom Swiss

I want to talk about the socialist who understood the intersectionality of race and class, and who rather than getting stuck in identity politics worked across the color line for "a new co-operation, understanding, and a determination by poor people of all colors and backgrounds to assert and win their right to a decent life"; the strident anti-war activist who understood that the United States government was often a force for violence and evil, "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today"; the man who advocated peaceful protest but never denied the right of self-defense, who wrote that "When the Negro uses force in self-defense, he does not forfeit support -- he may even win it, by the courage and self-respect it reflects." Read more

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2017-01-28T01:22:54-04:00

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“Inconsistent Me” (A Poem – Week 2 of “52 Makeup”)

Last updated on: January 28, 2017 at 1:22 am By Tom Swiss

Two days ago, 70 degrees Today, snow and ice And you insist that I be consistent? Read more

2017-01-12T02:29:26-04:00

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

Last updated on: January 12, 2017 at 2:29 am By Tom Swiss

Rather than allowing some to only contemplate the infinite and others to only fix drains, the ideal is that we should all be mystic plumbers. Read more

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