Camping Pt. 1
My family has pictures of my mother, pregnant with me, camping with her mother and step-father (I’ll refer to them as my grandparents from here on out — I only knew him as my grandfather). They had a...
View ArticleWhat a Month
Alright, so May was a terrible month for getting anything done. I didn’t do any renders. I didn’t get on with my photography project. I didn’t post here. I camped. I dealt with family. And that...
View ArticleWarmongers
I was pointed to this article with Dick Cheney’s opinions in it. And this is what is really happening in the world. The US of A spends more than the next ten highest spending nations combined. The US...
View ArticleCamping Pt. 2
I spent all summer at Colonial Woods from 8 years old — about 3rd grade in the US — until a few years after I graduated high school. I met and made some of the best friends I have ever had during...
View ArticleThis is Why
I’m an atheist, but I have as yet played no part in a movement or any activism. One of the reasons I started this blog was to slowly get into this area, but the more I try to create posts about it,...
View ArticleI Need to Read His Books
The author John Scalzi has a very good reply to someone on Twitter spouting anti-feminist rhetoric. I really need to get a novel or two of his.
View ArticleSince When is Access to Water Not a Right?
In Detroit, a judge has said that the poor have no right to water. Rhodes’s order served as a stinging rejection of arguments made by thousands of protesters who staged rallies last summer fighting...
View ArticleConsent
I really don’t understand why it is so difficult to understand consent. If someone doesn’t say, “Yes,” then you don’t have the right to violate their bodily autonomy. How difficult is that to...
View ArticleHomegrown Terrorism
I just read about this. I really have no words to describe how wretched that threat is. I am as speechless as I was when I first learned what Susan Smith did to her kids. I am as speechless as I was...
View ArticleEducation
I found this quote when looking up the history of public education in the United States: “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the...
View ArticleWhat Were They Thinking?
This is probably going to be part one of many, and this one will be rather short because it is just so totally incomprehensible to me. A district in Colorado just elected a state representative who has...
View ArticleLanding a Robot on a Comet
Today, the European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet that moves through our solar system. Comet 67P/Churyumov – Gerasimenko now contains a hitchhiker. These pictures show the approach. As great...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Science Discovery
So, religion, any new discoveries about how the universe works since we last spoke? No. Too bad. Because science has done it again. Today the collaboration for the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large...
View ArticleFerguson
As far as I can tell, the Grand Jury’s job is to determine whether a crime may have been committed. An unarmed teenager shot dead in the street seems to be pretty clear evidence that a crime may have...
View ArticleFerguson Grand Jury
The purpose of a Grand Jury in the United States is to decide whether a crime May have taken place. It seems a shitty bigot of an ADA decided to present the results in a highly irregular manor to this...
View ArticleMy Societal History
I never remember being taught that men did certain things and women did certain other things and never the twain shall meet. In fact, that idea was mocked in my household. Possibly in a bad way —...
View ArticleI Was Not Part of the 90s Culture Wars
As my last post probably showed, I was wrapped in my privilege for most of my life. I had no idea where or how the feminists were fighting. White hetero male was oblivious. Some folks have decided...
View ArticleComic Book Movies
I have read comic books in the past, though I was never a very dedicated collector. My favorite superhero is still Batman. I’ve read ones I thought had great art but lousy stories, and ones with...
View ArticleI Am So Sorry
This has been a weird beginning to 2015. I haven’t been able to come up with any kind of post that is longer than a few sentences, and this one is no better. At least I finally got my camera out...
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