

INTAKE
I haven’t had a GP since 1998. I was recently given the opportunity to apply for a rare patient spot at a local health centre. Though I...
Oct 7, 20245 min read


TIP-TOEING WITH LOONS
NADAV: It’s difficult to understand how we aren’t gleefully waltzing toward a global war. VANDANA: And the real thing, not the isolated...
Sep 30, 202411 min read


HEZBOLLOCKS-BE-GONE
*beep-beep* *buzzz* *beep-beep*
Sep 17, 20241 min read


HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
Sep 4, 20245 min read


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...
Sep 1, 20245 min read


PROBLEM SOLVING - A CAUTIONARY TALE
I was wanting to learn about and write something on how leaded gasoline became a thing. But then I came upon the biography of its...
Aug 31, 20246 min read


QUIET REVERSALS
A pair of revelations have surfaced relating to the pandemic. I didn't catch these being widely reported when they took place many months...
Aug 28, 20247 min read


THE POWER TO MISLEAD YOURSELF AND OTHERS or AN ARGUMENT FOR DOUBT
Folks seem to think people (other people) believe nonsense due to poor intelligence, low educational attainment, or lack of knowledge....
Aug 24, 20243 min read


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...
Aug 22, 20241 min read


DON'T WORRY
You wake up on the floor of a small windowless room. Disoriented, you sit up. You're not sure where you are or how you got there. In...
Aug 20, 20242 min read


COMPLEX FIRE
In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...
Aug 14, 20244 min read


A CORAL PREDICT-AMENT
You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...
Aug 10, 20245 min read


DIRECTIONS
Narendra : They’re not trying to hide anything from you, though. Adrenalina : Aren’t they? Narendra : They would if they could. For...
Aug 3, 202410 min read


AN ANTIDOTE TO GOLDFISHING or OCCASIONING OCCULTATIONS
Deborahlis : Yeah, I’m calling it ‘goldfishing.’ Cephorrhoea : Goldfish? Deborahlis : Gold-fishing. Not the cracker. Cephorrhoea : ...
Jul 27, 20249 min read


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 20, 20249 min read


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 16, 202416 min read


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...
Jul 14, 202415 min read


EUPHEMISTICALLY
Guy : What's been your favourite output from Santa Clara Valley? Maël : I'm pretty into illegal-taxi-company and...
Jul 3, 20241 min read