“Poverty,” as J. K. Rowling rightly observes, “entails a thousand petty humiliations and hardships; it is romanticized only by fools.”
Talkers, Doers, BSers, and Dullards
It’s time to step up to the plate.
The Good Dinosaur: I Want That Time Back
Sometimes, you watch a movie and then wonder what the heck you just did for an hour and a half.
A Nightmare on College Street
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today.”—victim’s statement read aloud at Brock Turner’s sentencing.
Dear Donald
John Faithful Hamer pens a letter about true democracy to the GOP nominee.
A letter about true democracy to the GOP nominee.
Trump University vs. Typical University
Was Trump University a scam?
Loyalty, it Means Having Your Friend’s Back
“Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public. And distrust anyone who does the reverse.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Always Remember Your First
“Stuart spotted me the minute I stepped onto the schoolyard.”
Question Everything?
We all have faith. We all live by faith. Not because we want to, but because we have to.
What Will the Year be Remembered as?
This was a year of reckoning wherein a whole lot of sinners got their comeuppance.
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: There’s no Accounting for Taste
Why do we frequently find it hard to give a rational account of our aesthetic judgments?
When I Realized I Was a Coward
He was a coward, by nature, and he would need to struggle against that basic fact for the rest of his life.
(Bi) Lateral Thinking is not a Puzzle
Is it time to debunk the abomination known as a lateral thinking puzzle?
The Protestant Work-Ethic Aesthetic
John Faithful Hamer on an unsatisfying criticism of Jackson Pollack.
My Near Death Fentanyl Experience
Some would argue that the lack of regulation makes drug use even more dangerous.
The Short Sordid Tale of Cop John
What do cases of police corruption tell us about our society’s problems in general?