Social Contract Children Are Not the Future 7 Jun 20208 Jun 2020 Earn good grades and stay out of trouble. That gets you into a good college. Do well in college. That gets you a good job; ideally, it gets you a…
Personal… Society Treats Individuals Differently – It Cannot Treat Them Discriminately 30 May 2020 Humans were once hunters and gatherers. If the food became scarce in one region, the humans would have to move to another to feed themselves. This process changed during the…
Personal… Love in the Time of Ideology 12 Apr 2020 I never gave much thought to the character of Captain America until Chris Evans brought him to life in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As the character unfolded across several films…
Social Contract Democracy (as Oppression by Simple Majority) 22 Feb 2020 Of this I am certain, that in a democracy the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppression upon the minority...and that oppression of the minority will extend to far greater…
Critical Thought… Questions About Religion 24 Jan 2020 Some close friends and family of mine are people of faith. As an agnostic*, I admire that quality about them. The asterisk on agnostic is because, according to some, I…
Mental Health… The Pitiless Effect of Passion 16 Nov 201918 Dec 2019 Love is a common subject when writing and though this specific idea has not featured in any of my writing it does occur to me often while contemplating love, and…
#HeForShe… I Might Be a Terrible Feminist, and I’m Too Afraid of What I Might Find Out 12 Nov 2019 I have danced around this topic several times before, and perhaps this will be but another in a series of failures to fail. Over the course of the last ten…
Mental Health… Who Isn’t Behind the Curtain? (Dunning-Kruger Effect, Impostor Syndrome, and a World of Uncertainty) 25 Jul 2019 I take IQ tests as an antidote to boredom. A score over 130 is routine - sometimes exceeding 140 or 150 depending on the test. No, I am not a…
Critical Thought… Who Prays for Satan? 28 Mar 201922 Dec 2019 I tried desperately to find a short comic I had seen recently in which a group of characters ignore one. They did not appear particularly mean, but they omitted one…
#HeForShe… Because (An Open Letter to the Daughter I May Never Meet) [Redux] 17 Jan 201914 Mar 2022 Dear Alice Kathryn, Hey there, Ally Kat. You know, even before I met your mother I had dreams about you. Your mom and I would be laying on a couch…
Celtic Riverside 