The nature of future predictions is to end up eating your words with some regularity. I’ve grown somewhat used to the taste of my own, though find it no more palatable now than I ever have. I believe this to be because I try still to avoid it. I want to imagine myself brilliant, a …
The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, But What About the Camera? So my editor wants me to write about the debates, but I think there is enough analysis out there to tell you how to think about it that you don’t need my additional input. Suffice it to say that Marianne Williamson offers a …
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Instead of writing poetic and insightful to lead tidily to my point, let me just get right to that point (pah, who are we kidding): The point of all of it, everything we do, all our progress and our suffering and every part of the complete human experience is with the overall unified aim of …
Can’t See the Seaweed from the Sea So re-reading through my first week of posts, I see the arising theme of the decaying liberal order and the growing specter of fear for the state of the future, and I wanted to cut it off sharp. Aside from the daily deluge of dumb news contstanly streaming …
I don’t remember a single father’s day celebrated or acknowledged while dear old daddy was alive. We never did those kind of sentimental, silly things then–we don’t now. These hallmark holidays just have a special kind of ring to them these days, an extra hollow-ness in the bells that we only hear in the rings …