

INFLATION
In the summer of 1998, as a teen, I got my first paying job working at a community centre. I had no education or any work or life...
Feb 21, 20243 min read


NO-CYCLE
In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling . I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent...
Feb 19, 20247 min read


IS THAT WHAT WE NEEDED?
I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC. Exploring these themes further, I just...
Feb 14, 20243 min read


FOOD AND HOT TEA
The long trek was made longer by deep snow and an icy breeze. After eight hours they’d made it to the agreed location. Before making the...
Jan 31, 20245 min read


GOMORRAH
I’ve been shocked by the response to Israel’s declaration of war and actions in Gaza. Of course, I’m not talking about the masses making...
Jan 24, 202414 min read


IMPOTENT AND AFRAID
I almost fell over reading this story in the news this morning: Indonesia enlists help of experts for ICJ Israel case. The Foreign...
Jan 20, 20242 min read


TYPICAL
These tweets are from the accounts of directors of Middle Eastern studies, investigative journalists, media companies, Palestinian...
Jan 19, 20242 min read


MANIFEST
Between 1892 and 1954 around 12 million people immigrated to the US via the immigration station at Ellis Island, New York. And any scan...
Dec 27, 20233 min read


ZIVILISATIONBRUSCH
Though Malayuka Arnutskyah scored high on all her examinations, that could not help her overcome the quotas. Even though she was raised...
Dec 8, 20236 min read


ONE THING IS CLEAR
The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...
Dec 5, 20236 min read


“ISRAEL STRIKES GAZA AFTER TRUCE EXPIRES”
NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...
Dec 1, 20232 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 26, 202312 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 19, 202310 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 17, 20234 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 14, 20239 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 11, 20236 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 9, 202323 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 7, 202311 min read