- Sep 1
- 5 min
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
This is what I understood my ancestry to look like: My father’s family name is extremely English and my mother’s maiden name is a sort of...
- Aug 22
- 1 min
MARINOVKA VIOLATIONS
NON-FICTION Today, August 22, 2024, a fellow recorded a video on his phone as he witnessed the Marinovka air base, on the Don river in...
- Jul 27
- 9 min
AN ANTIDOTE TO GOLDFISHING or OCCASIONING OCCULTATIONS
Deborahlis : Yeah, I’m calling it ‘goldfishing.’ Cephorrhoea : Goldfish? Deborahlis : Gold-fishing. Not the cracker. Cephorrhoea : ...
- Jun 23
- 33 min
DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...
- Jun 19
- 13 min
HELL LET LOOSE
MI-CHAEL: I dunno. It’s like how I play this game. It’s a kind of World War II simulation. The creators have attempted to faithfully...
- Dec 15, 2023
- 39 min
ISRAEL-PALESTINE QUIZ
A FEW BASIC FACTS AND THINGS I NEVER HEAR Choose the answer that best fits your understanding of the situation If you don't know the...
- Nov 3, 2023
- 8 min
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 12, 2023
- 16 min
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 20, 2023
- 2 min
IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE RED SCARE
During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity, that terrible period of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...
- Aug 13, 2023
- 3 min
(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...