What You Think You Think is Often at Odds With What You Really Think
The other day I put up a quote on the evil monster that is Facebook from an interview with my favorite singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock. It went, “Any culture which is based around sitting around taking drugs I would say was pretty close to being nihilistic. Especially ones as confusing and vapid as marijuana and LSD. You […]
Ethical Aliens
Imagine a society in which every individual has access to power capable of destroying a city. How about capable of destroying a state? A nation? A world? If you envision alien beings capable of interstellar travel, you are, by necessity, envisioning a society wherein individuals have access to such devastating power. If you look at […]
Dancing With Libtards and Fascists
All of my life I’ve been a confirmed libtard. I was never as committed to the cause as some people. But I did join a hardcore punk band whose main songwriter at the time was a confirmed socialist. Or maybe he was an anarcho-syndicalist? I was never quite sure what that was, but I heard […]
Waking Up Happy
My niece wrote on Facebook, “wondering when I’ll wake up happy.” She’s 21 and unhappy a lot of the time. I wrote a response that I’d like to share. What’s written below is what I wrote to Sky. — I don’t know if I would say that I wake up “happy.” But I wake up […]
Trump’s Stupid “Solution” to School Shootings or Stand Against Suffering Redux
President Donald Trump issued a series of tweets this morning. They went like this: I never said “give teachers guns” like was stated on Fake News. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving “concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience – only the best. 20% of […]
