“The problem is that progress stopped making sense. More and more of us looked up one day and realized that the emperor had no clothes.” ― Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility… Read More ›
Month: August 2026
“Follow the Science” — Right Up Until It Asks an Inconvenient Question
“But I don’t want to be Godly. I just want to be good.” ― Caradog Prichard, One Moonlit Night I’ve got a couple of pet peeves, which probably won’t surprise anybody who has been reading me for more than… Read More ›
The Silly Season Comes to School
“What is truth?” Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 