Nov 26, 202312 min read
HYPERBOLE
[ The internet, 2023: Some random idiot is confronted by a human rights lawyer on social media ] “It’s not a game. I’m calling you out.”...
Nov 19, 202310 min read
UNNECESSARY OCCUPATION
The strongest arguments I hear about the Palestine-Israel conflict relate to “occupation.” Folks like Dr Munayyer, Dr Knight, and Dr...
Nov 17, 20234 min read
BEING HUMAN
“Why does everyone talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict as being difficult?” “Probably because it’s, I dunno, difficult?” “Is it,...
Nov 14, 20239 min read
THE GOOD SENSE
“Well, I mean, the Kurds have never been offered statehood, despite treaties promising such.” “Okay, but that’s the whole world.” “What...
Nov 11, 20236 min read
ALL OF IT
"Can I ask what you're doing here today?" "We're just out supporting the cause." "But I believe that's the flag of Hamas. And the chant...
Nov 9, 202323 min read
“IT'S JUST ABOUT FREEDOM, OBVIOUSLY”
Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...
Nov 7, 202311 min read
“CERTAIN IDEAS ARE SO ABSURD...”
Those conformists (sometimes known as “academics”) who provide all the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic justifications for murder —...
Nov 2, 20238 min read
BY THESE TERMS
“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it...
Oct 29, 20236 min read
“BRILLIANT, AMAZING”
How do you make sense of what’s happening? What I’m seeing are officials, news reporters, and protesters alike quick to demand folks draw...
Oct 23, 202320 min read
DID YOU KNOW?
You will be delighted to learn I received much push-back on my last submission. Aside from some interesting comments, I was sent several...
Oct 11, 202316 min read
THE SEA WE SWIM IN
I've heard and seen some wild shit this week. (Though I probably shouldn't, I'll leave out the most insane anti-Semitic noise and...
Sep 29, 20233 min read
NO-SEE
No part of the narrative forming around this story even makes sense. That CBC is pushing this silly idea is, well, no surprise. With the...
Sep 28, 20235 min read
A GOOD WAR?
Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish...
Sep 19, 20233 min read
IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE RED SCARE
During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...
Aug 18, 20234 min read
FLAME ON
I always like to recount Suzuki's story about smog. How when shooting an episode of The Nature of Things he and his crew went and sat at...
Aug 16, 20236 min read
“THIS IS HOW IT IS”
I imagine that it is as true for you as it is me that almost everything I thought I understood from prior education turned out to be far...
Aug 12, 20233 min read
(THE COMPLETELY FICTIONAL) CONTEXT FOR A STORY
The hawi derived all their power and influence from inherited privileges. Those privileges largely took the form of ownership of key...
Aug 1, 202311 min read
DON'T!
We moved into a new place. The first strata council meeting eventually arrived. My partner had been anticipating the event for two...