- 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 : ...
- Jul 20
- 9 min
FEMMES FATALES
In their ongoing effort to frame everything Palestinian as benevolent and peace-oriented, CBC sought once again to amplify the voice (and...
- Jul 16
- 15 min
WHAT NOT TO DO WITH CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
I was hearing about all this stuff around Trump-related court cases and some being consequential far beyond those cases. Knowing nothing...
- Jul 14
- 15 min
IT CAN'T BE THIS HARD
With a couple of communication degrees, I think of it as my job to comment on media matters. But at this point the relentless barrage of...
- Jun 26
- 2 min
NON-REACTIVE
I want to love nuclear. I really do. But there’s so little to like and proponents continually refuse to win me over. Here’s just one more...
- 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...
- Jun 1
- 3 min
MISNOMER
I don’t know how I got here. Somehow I developed this crazy belief that firefighters fought fires. Crazy, right? My bad. Per capita,...
- May 28
- 17 min
ARE YOU ABETTING, MAN?
Two people are having a conversation over the phone. One is in a typical Singapore apartment complex. Lush green trees are all around....
- May 24
- 12 min
I'M ALL FOR BURNING BOOKS (AND SO ARE YOU)
You read that right. I’m all for burning books, as I'm pretty sure you are. Just because you can conjure a pithy line you heard in a film...