If You Don’t Like Men…
After a number of positive music reviews, I think it's time to do a negative one. The song in question, which has serenaded me over the radio a few times…
The False Security of Moderation
I was just ran out of an establishment because of where I work. Chewed out, abused. But I guess that’s the norm now. -- Kat Timpf In the aftermath of…
An Answer For the Bear
Owen Benjamin asks about whether it is okay to listen to songs written by evil people: I want to know -- and feel free to tell me your exact opinion,…
Real Journalism
I'd be willing to bet that many people are kind of sick of hearing people like me bemoan the decline of journalism, how the media is generally partisan garbage, and…
Carhartts and Blackbelts: On the Symbols of Mastery
When I was in martial arts, we were taught that the old Okinawan belt system was not what it is today, where dyed belts in white, yellow, blue, orange, purple,…
Sleep Walking Elite: An Analysis
I enjoy writing about music from time to time, whether it's about a particular song, or a band, or the nature of music in general. Like many people, I listen…
Word Bombs
What seems most pertinent in this whole pipe-bomb story is the fact that they were described as "crude:" A sudden wave of pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack…
Gold Enough
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,…
More Peterson Shenanigans: An Autopsy
I have no desire to get into the Thunderf00t game of beating dead horses, but sometimes an illustration is so illustrative that it is worth illustrating how illustrative it is.…
Caveats on Orwell
From almost six years back, Ed Smith has some interesting insight on the subject of deceptive speech and Orwell's Politics and the English Language: Orwell argues that “the great enemy of…