This morning, a block over and ten blocks north of here, there was a woman tweaking out on something, probably meth or fentanyl. I’m reasonably certain something similar is happening a few blocks from your house too. I take it… Read More ›
Everything You Wanted to Know About What’s Going On in the World But Were Afraid to Ask
WALLPAPER
We sometimes forget that though 2020 was hell for some, it was a banner year for others. If you escaped Covid, if your income and assets were protected, if the people you now had an excuse not to spend time… Read More ›
THE BANALITY OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER
Every now and then we all have one of those wait-a-minute moments. It’s when someone’s been trying to slide one over on us, but all of a sudden we notice. The latest, at least for me, is this mantra that… Read More ›
PRIVILEGE AND ACADEMIA
Imagine two colleges side by side with everything being equal, save that one has all and only white faculty and students, the other all and only black faculty and students. Imagine too that there’s some objective measure of student outcomes…. Read More ›
THE OTHER UNDRIP AND INTERSECTIONALITY
Shortly after having passed its Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, the UN ran out of acronyms. So just to avoid confusion, it’s the other UNDRIP that’s the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Invisible People. Women and… Read More ›
WHAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT
I’m a much better person than my wife. When I have an unconscionable thought I immediately suppress it. When she does she puts it on the table and toys with it like a cat does a mouse. Her latest is… Read More ›
THE WOKE AND THE UNWOKE
There’s the woke, there’s the yet to be woke, and then there’s the out-of-my-cold-dead-hands unwoke. I think I’m the latter. And, as could have been expected, our numbers are growing. The counter-revolution needed spokesmen – notice the unabashed performative sexism… Read More ›
IN DEFENCE OF THE HUMBLE PRONOUN
Those of us who speak English find it weird, though not offensive, that Latin-based languages – French and Spanish and Italian – assign gender to their nouns, and indicate that assignment with a gendered article. It’s possible that a very… Read More ›
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
If you ask me what’s beauty, or ugliness, or maybe even the distinction between right from wrong, I likely wouldn’t be able to tell you, except to say I know it when I see it. That’s why, as I’ve already… Read More ›
ROADS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
Save for recent immigrants, there are no African Americans. Percentages have nothing to do with it. You’re black in America just in case the rest of us think you are. You’re white in America just in case you can pass… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 