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. Global governments and law enforcement and…

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…

There are too many signs. Signs of every kind. Signs with names, signs with numbers, signs with instructions or warnings, signs with words, words and more words. The whole landscape littered with signs upon signs. …

We live in a chronically violent theocratic oligarchy. That is not hyperbole. People are not exaggerating when they draw comparisons between the current climate of the United States and that of Gilead and make other such allusions to The Handmaid’s Tale. While we’re not yet living in the full fruition…

We need more dogs. There aren’t enough dogs in the world, and certainly not enough dogs in the places we go every day. If you go to work, to a cafe, to a museum, to a grocery store, or anywhere else, and there are not at least several dogs there…

Gun manufacturers, lobbyists, and activists argue that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” …

Humans are great at predicting the future, but terrible at planning for it, let alone changing it. From scientists to science fiction writers to lay-prognosticators, we’re able to imagine events far outside the scope of our present actions or our lifetimes. Much of our future-tripping is bleak. Utopian fiction is…