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How Wrong Is Too Wrong?
At some point, we have to ask questions about basic skills and efficacy, of people who are given immense privilege and prestige related to public information and public discourse. There is a not insubstantial number of people still working in news, media, our political institutions, who actively tri
Jan 14, 2026 0 11
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
[NOTE: Since this film was released in 1968, I'm not going to attempt to avoid spoilers. It's a great film, worth the time, so go watch it before you read this.] In 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the clock tower at University of Texas Austin with a bevy of firearms. In the ninety-six mi
Oct 23, 2025 0 1
I Don't Fear AI, I Fear Tech Oligarchs Distaste for Humanity
I’m going to tell you a story. I was a boy, on the cusp of being a teenager. My father’s closest friend, Jimmy, died of cancer. He was his forties, no more than the earliest of his fifties. When you’re as young as I was, there’s “not grown,” “grown,” and “old.” He wasn’t “old.” Jimmy was grown, but
Apr 28, 2025 0 1
The Art of Fear and The Power of the Frame: Introduction
As I'm aging, and giving myself the permission, the freedom, to spend more time and energy considering storytelling, I've been taking a new look at things I have taken as givens, maybe taken for granted. Among them is the fact that storytelling, and the arts as a whole, are one of the ways we commun
Nov 5, 2024 0
Unpossible Outcomes
I've been trying to write this entry for a week or so now. It's hard to even know where to start. Disloyal Jews? Rounding up the mentally ill until "we know what's going on"? The Epstein connections and scandal? The continued refusal to specifically address the wanton violence committed by the adher
Aug 28, 2019 0