The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Ellie Goulding's new hit "Hate Me" touches on an interesting subject related to hatred in the context of romantic relationships. It is a topic I didn't address in my book In…
In Defense of Riding Motorcycles
When I initially picked up my '78 CB750, it was just a mechanical project. I wasn't particularly handy with a wrench, and I wanted to fix that. Read enough Crawford…
How to Delete Steam in 7 Easy Steps
Some people really enjoy video games and consider them a hobby. (Everyone's got a hobby and I'm not here to bash video games in that capacity.) But for some people,…
Hatred isn’t Giving Up Control
I remember when Nelson Mandela died in 2013. I remember because everyone was falling over themselves to remember this Marxist terrorist as some kind of hero. But one of the lines…
Druid wolf pack chasing bull elk;
Doug Smith;
December 2007
On Dog-Loving Misanthropes
There is a particular personality type that I have come to really dislike: that of the dog-loving misanthrope. This kind of person believes that dogs are superior to humans, at…
Sanity and the Sun
The two best summers of my life were unusual. For the first, I was 20 years old (if memory serves), and I had moved back in with my parents, between…
The Price of Misogyny
When circling around anti-feminist circles for a while, it is easy to come to believe that misogyny is a fantasy. Feminists so often interpolate malicious motives into benign statements and…
Why is Sex Associated with Death?
It isn't just the French la petite mort -- the "little death" -- that binds the mysteriously opposed forces of sex and death together. Death has long been associated with…
Hatred Isn’t Fear
I am a few chapters into a book called Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence, and I may end up doing a full-length review of it in the future, after I…
Can You Hate an Idea?
Last month, KM Patten wrote a rather lengthy review of my first book, In Defense of Hatred: Two observations can be made almost instantly when one considers the concept of Hatred.…