Elizabeth II may well have been a perfectly lovely and pleasant person, and by the flood of global adoration and grief being poured over her desiccated cadaver the past couple weeks, it would seem she was. She was, however, the figurehead of a tyrannical monarchy that ruled an empire which…

Attentive obsessives will have noticed that I didn’t post anything last week. It’s not that I didn’t write anything. It’s not that I was enjoying the long weekend, to the extent that I could while coping with the heatwave that made my region of California a triple-digit hellscape, and couldn’t…

Diets are bullshit. Clarification: the trendy fad diets that are marketed to people (consumers), their purported intention typically for the dieter to reap fast and substantial benefits for minimal effort, are bullshit. I know, right, really going out on a limb with this one, aren’t I? But this is a…

I had to go to convocation this past week. For those who don’t work at a college or haven’t been there in a long time, convocation is a big gathering, a meeting/presentation, at the beginning of the semester. Normally, I do not go to them. Early on in my employment…

Enrolling children in school based on age is a flawed practice. It is unfair to presume that all children are at the same developmental level based on age. Some would benefit from beginning school later, while others may be ready to skip ahead. …

It’s not my place to say whether Taiwan is part of China or is an independent state. It’s not the place of the US government to make that determination. It for damn sure is not Nancy Pelosi’s place to do so. Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was at best pointless and…

Sugar is the devil. It’s a drug and it’s dangerous, like any other drug, and more so than some. Sugar alters our neurochemistry, has powerful effects on our thoughts, emotions, and actions. It rots parts of our bodies, it causes diseases, it kills people. …

Churches are seen as pinnacles of righteousness and arbiters of justice. At least, they promote this image of themselves and try to make their followers see them that way. For some churches, perhaps it’s true. Perhaps they are truly good Christians and not corrupted hypocritical monsters who disgrace Jesus’s teachings…

The Supreme Court has always been a problem. Apart from being an unelected body of lifetime appointees that can overrule the will of the people without any means of recourse, which institutionally shits right in the face of any notion that the United States is a democracy, it has always…