Some People Like Dictators — (click for part 1) As I write, Ukraine is resisting an armed invasion by Russia. Today, Ukraine is the underdog standing up to bullying by a larger, more dangerous country: the little kid getting pushed around by the big kid on the playground. Those of us who are cheering for…

Don’t be shocked or surprised… When vocal, strident antivaxxers die of Covid-19 it often happens that their family immediately deletes their long history of anti-mask, anti-mandate, anti-science memes on Facebook. Sometimes they delete the entire account. People don’t like to remember moments when we or our kin were squarely on the wrong side of history…

In Missouri, far right politicians are proposing a law that would effectively criminalise seeking a legal abortion in another state. In Idaho, far right politicians are proposing a law that would effectively criminalise travel across a state line to obtain medical support for one’s trans child. Whatever one’s position on…

If you didn’t already know, there’s a subReddit called “QAnon Casualties.” It chronicles the struggles of people whose friends and family members have gone down the Q rabbit hole. …

I ran across this repost on Reddit. Somehow, among all the frightening stupidities of the day and week and month — the Qonvoy Qlownshow on the Canada/US border, the on-going tragic drip-drip-drip of antivaxxers dying slowly in ICUs because they trusted some sociopathic grifter on Youtube, the uncertain (or do…

In watching (from a safe distance) the ongoing war over washrooms and who gets to use which ones, I feel like something is missing from the coverage and debate I’ve been exposed to thus far. Maybe it’s been discussed somewhere I haven’t yet stumbled across. …

It’s amazing how effective it was, the great Red Scare of the 50’s — thanks so much, Papa Stalin, the Dulles Bros, JEH and the mil/industrial complex. The Red Scare achieved a successful — and incredibly durable — demonisation of any political position left of Eisenhower (who himself was significantly…

TLDR: Saw it (big screen VR). Enjoyed almost every minute. Best attempt yet to adapt this amazing novel to the screen. Not perfect, but perfection probably unattainable. Some mixed feelings alongside the Wow. — — — - So for context, I have been a fan of the book since first…

[This is a five-part series based on a couple of hours of interview for community radio. The aired version will obviously be much shorter, but I thought the content was interesting enough to warrant an unabridged text version. …