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Wonderfully Obscure

Aug 15, 2017 3 min read

Some pithy title

Well, yesterday’s post was a real bummer. Sorry about that, average of 1.2 people who read my blog every month. This is the part where I would normally make a self-deprecating joke and delete the post.

Keep moving

Today I am fighting. I’m fighting to keep the dark grey encroaching on my mental horizon from crushing me under its weight. I’m fighting the overwhelming despair, the crippling melancholy, my old enemy.
Aug 14, 2017 1 min read

On Skin Color

An interesting thing happened a few months ago that I have been processing ever since. Froggy, who was five at the time, wanted to draw a picture of my family.
Jun 9, 2017 3 min read

Spiders vs Legomaniacs

In this post-fact era, people frequently ask me and each other (and the stars in the sky), “How can people still keep believing in Trump when all he does is lie?
Mar 9, 2017 4 min read

Culture Wars

Not long ago Richard Spencer, the white supremacist best known for getting punched in the face on video, was asked a question about religion. He said that he was a “cultural christian,” later admitting he is an atheist.
Mar 3, 2017 4 min read

For what it is worth

No one asked me, but I will say that I believe that Summer Zervos was genuinely hurt by Mr. Trump. I think she gave him a pass years ago for the same reason women in abusive relationships everywhere give their abusers a pass.
Jan 18, 2017 1 min read

What is race?

I read an essay today (RACE IS ABOUT INTERPRETATION, NOT IDENTITY.) which spun up my thinking wheels. Go read that essay and then come back. I’ll wait. Ready? Did you really read it, or .
Jan 4, 2017 6 min read

Fake News

I am so sad and broken. My own family, who I love and who I believe are good and intelligent people, have fallen for the infowars fake news. I have redirected my mom, my uncle, my sister to snopes.
Nov 17, 2016 4 min read Politics, Religion

My donation page for ExtraLife

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=197983
Nov 6, 2016 1 min read

Extralife For the Kids

This is the letter I sent out months ago about this event. I admit I didn’t do most of the things in the letter. I spent most of my time campaigning for HRC and donating and encouraging people to donate to Hillary or to the Democrats up and down the line.
Nov 6, 2016 3 min read gaming

I am with her

If you want to help out in the last few days before the election, talk to your friends and co-workers. Don’t try to be political, just ask if they are registered to vote.
Oct 6, 2016 1 min read

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Philippians 4:8New International Version (NIV) 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Sep 15, 2016 1 min read

Damn Straight, sister

Hoffman described El Al’s acquiescence to demands to move women passengers as “one more way that ultra-Orthodox extremists get away with demands that have nothing to do with Judaism. Humiliating women can in no way qualify as a religious act.
Apr 4, 2016 1 min read

ISIL vs Syria vs the World

It would be nice if people could try to understand that the situation in Syria is complicated. They have been living under an oppressive regime for a long time now. If we put boots on the ground in Syria, what then?
Nov 17, 2015 1 min read

Dying Light: A sort of review

I like playing video games. My favorite games are ones that have some element of role-playing in them. I like to pretend I’m somewhere else, someone else, out saving the world or even just saving my own ass.
Mar 21, 2015 4 min read
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