Should a Boss Call Their Staff Racist and Sexist? I was accused by a supervisor of being racist and sexist. She expressed the belief that I don’t respect her because she is a woman of color. I don’t believe that I had disrespected her, and if I had inadvertently done…

We shouldn’t be driving cars anymore. Or we shouldn’t be driving them for much longer, as they could be and should be soon made obsolete. Cars are insane contraptions when you think about them. They’re metal, glass, and plastic cages that roll around at perilous speeds by the volition of…

Are we seriously supposed to call Twitter “X” now? Among the many idiotic decisions that Elon Musk has made for the platform since being forced to follow through on his drunken offer to buy it for an exorbitant fee, and hoo boy, there have been a lot of idiotic decisions…

There’s actually not anything wrong with e-bikes. I have an e-bike. It’s great. It’s a pedal-assist e-bike, which means that it’s an actual bike. The problem is e-bikes with throttles. These are bikes that you don’t need to pedal, which will propel themselves on their own, meaning they are essentially…

If a company is advertising, not an actual product but themselves, they should be viewed with utmost suspicion and probably scorn. Listening to podcasts, one hears all kinds of ads that they otherwise wouldn’t. Growing up with television advertisements as the dominant product-hocking and time-wasting media, I got used to…

There are people who inspire respect and there are those who demand it. Only one of them will earn it. Generally speaking, the people who demand respect are autocrats, dictators, and bullies. They might receive the respect of some, but from most people all they will get is fear. Even…

Tolerance is not a positive word, despite being used for many decades as though it is. It’s commonly been promoted as a model for behavior towards minority groups. Racial tolerance is the most common usage, but it’s been applied towards immigrants, LGBTQ people, and others, as the model for how…

The Benefits of being Enslaved, or of Ron Desantis not Existing Ron Desantis is a fascist, as well as a racist, a misogynist, a jackass, and an asshole. Those things are often tied, but not always so tightly and in such a massive, wretched bundle as they are in Desantis’s…

Slurs and Self-Censorship People say horrible, offensive things, without meaning for them to be horrible and offensive, all the time. Put another way: slurs and insulting phrases work their way into the cultural lexicon which, even when not used against the particular group to whom they were originally applied, hurt…