Fight Club: Gayer than Gay
I got my daily dose of humility today. Fight Club is gay. I had seen the movie, read the book, and heard the theory, and still dismissed it as nonsense. Clearly,…
Strange God
What a curious glory, A baffling kind of love, That pulls our eyes from beauty And turns them up above; In what strange morality -- And to what foggy ends…
Courtesy Peter Beste
What is “Traditional Masculinity?”
Between the recent Gillette advertisement criticizing "toxic masculinity" and the new American Psychological Association's guidelines for the psychological practice with boys and men, everyone is talking about masculinity. Is it…
Simplicity in Music
I've written a little bit about how complexity can make music more interesting and enjoyable. Such is the case with Tool. But in many cases, the best music is not complex…
Dealing with a Fake Review
I thought I'd take a few moments to go over a 1-star review on Amazon for In Defense of Hatred: Off the bat, those last two lines ("Not[sic], it's not hate.…
On the Wall
About a decade ago, Democrats (including Obama and Clinton) supported the erection of a border wall. Republicans, broadly speaking, were generally uninterested in immigration and highly critical of spending a…
What is the Problem with Liberalism?
Contra my own lofty ideals that led me to delete my Facebook account, I found myself in a debate on Twitter the other day. The original post went as follows:…
Why Do Men Have Beards? A Hypothesis…
It's an interesting-enough question to ask 'why do people have hair on their heads, but not on the rest of their bodies?' Some have speculated that it has to do…
The “Personalized-Exclusive” Argument
As a lover of arguments, there are few things more irritating than the kinds of arguments which shut down the conversation. Ad hominems are probably the most familiar variety of this…
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