Homelessness
Homelessness is a social failure. When your fellow citizens have nowhere else to sleep and so sleep in the streets, this says more about you and the people with someplace to sleep than it does about the poor person who…
Homelessness is a social failure. When your fellow citizens have nowhere else to sleep and so sleep in the streets, this says more about you and the people with someplace to sleep than it does about the poor person who…
As Rose Eveleth explains in a brief piece titled Two-Thirds of the World Still Hates Lefties: “Even the word left comes from ‘lyft’ which meant broken. The German words ‘linkisch’ also means awkward. The Russian word ‘levja’ is associated with being…
Crip time is this diagnosis of the exacting, you know, and punishing even, standards of economic time by which each human is measured as an index of our worth. That really is what is at stake here. Sara Hendren (Crip…
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me,…
“This is Bonnie and Clyde,” said Will Whisennand, who oversees care of the mammals at the Austin Aquarium, as he walked into the otter exhibit. “They squeak when they’re happy. They squeak when they’re sad, when they’re excited, when they’re…
When I wrote: …I think I got the most volume and some of the most varied feedback I’ve ever gotten for any post I’d ever written before. It ran the gamut from “this is easy to do and Facebook can’t…
To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens speaking of Jerry Falwell, he deserves to go to hell, but that isn’t possible because hell doesn’t exist. On the Media – How Rush Limbaugh Paved The Way For Trump – February 17, 2021 Everyone can…
Laïcité provokes a lot of incomprehension outside of the country, which isn’t surprising given the current financial globalization trend that privileges individual rights over collective fraternity. Yet, in France, the political community takes precedence over subjective communities, as it is…
The book and the series The Good Lord Bird were mentioned in episode 813 of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast (after the quote by Frederick Douglass) Because they mentioned it, and because it starred Ethan Hawke as John…