

Aug 24, 20191 min read
THE AMAZING AMAZON-AGEDDON
As ever, we are being played. We may wish to ask why and by whom. Everywhere I turn I'm being told there are "unprecedented wildfires in...


Jul 28, 20194 min read
HONEYBEES AND HUMANITY
There's a meme that's been going around for a decade or more that I'd like to see end. There are many variations but they typically...


May 17, 20196 min read
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE NEW DEAL
You’ve likely noticed Progressives in America all atwitter with talk of what is being called the Green New Deal. And, as the nation that...

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Apr 7, 201910 min read
BIODIVER[C]ITY
Some people were sitting together working on their laptops in the cafe when I sat down to start my own work. Shortly after I arrived one...


Mar 25, 20196 min read
THE SHÖNBRUNN MIRACLE
By Kale McDunitt May 29th, 2022 Austria's Schönbrunn Zoo, the world's oldest continuously operating zoo, went public today with a secret...


Feb 11, 20193 min read
FROM NOTHING, NOTHING COMES
“What's up?” asks Perk, imagining Gram must be a little depressed, though certain as ever he remains unable to read the man. Cocking his...


Dec 17, 20185 min read
COLOURBLINDNESS
I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...


Nov 11, 20182 min read
UNKNOWN
Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...

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Oct 22, 20188 min read
REFERENDUM[B]
Today I got a little booklet in the mail from the provincial government. It was the official voter's guide to the referendum on electoral...


Oct 7, 20185 min read
+10,000
Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...


Sep 1, 20183 min read
TOO POUR
Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...


Aug 20, 201810 min read
BORDERLESSNESS
The Atlantic magazine carried an article called "The Case For Getting Rid of Borders – Completely." I really wanted to hear something...


Jul 5, 20181 min read
WORKED
As a child, Liam worked evenings across town in a barber shop as a soap boy lathering rough faces. At thirteen he dropped out of school...


Apr 26, 20189 min read
AFRICA: Observations, revelations, misconceptions, and reflections
- I am a mosquito magnet. (Like getting twenty a day through my clothes, while wearing repellant, when no one else is getting any at...


Apr 15, 20186 min read
KIDNAPPINGS
One afternoon in Kampala I was out running errands when I decided to hail a boda-boda (a motorcycle taxi and the most common public...


Apr 11, 201822 min read
UGANDA JOURNAL - MONTH TWO
I brought with me a little souvenir from my Nile trip: malaria. Despite being paranoid and always being covered up (only ever wearing...


Apr 5, 20182 min read
LIFE IN KAMPALA
Me: a traveler passing through. Emma: a gainfully employed husband and father. We were talking about what it's like to live in Kampala....


Mar 27, 20189 min read
LEARNED
Several times during my undergrad I had people suggest to me that I couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have trouble learning...