See updates through November 8, 2021, at end of post.
Somehow, remarkably, I have a tax situation that’s too complicated for H&R Block—or as they seem to be styling themselves now, Block Advisors. Read more
I mourn roadkill, for I am not so very much better off.
See updates through November 8, 2021, at end of post.
Somehow, remarkably, I have a tax situation that’s too complicated for H&R Block—or as they seem to be styling themselves now, Block Advisors. Read more
See update for October 22, 2021, at end of post.
I suppose it shouldn’t be the least bit surprising that social media networks seem collectively to be losing their minds.
I’m sorry to say effective immediately @DPRK_News is defunct. I founded the account in 2009.
Twitter decided today that it violates their rules. I’m not going to label a parody a parody. That moots the point. It gives away the joke.
The DPRK never complained. One of you did.
— President Dawg (@PresidentDawg) October 20, 2021
To be honest, I’d had difficulty discerning whether, in fact, @DPRK_News was a parody account. Sometimes, I swore it had to be. Other times, it was just plausible enough. Which is to say it was pretty damn good parody and this is a loss. Read more
Martha Sepúlveda suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), “a disease of the nervous system that is incurable, degenerative and eventually fatal” and has opted for euthanasia:[1] Read more
See update for February 8, 2022, at end of post.
This is a false analogy:
American consumers might have been spoiled, but generations of them have also dealt with shortages of some kind — gasoline in the 1970s, food rationing in the 1940s, housing in the 1920s when cities such as Detroit were booming. Now it’s our turn to make adjustments.[1]
Are you ALIVE? Congratulations, you deserve a LIVING wage.
— Anti-Capitalist Killjoy (@AntiKilljoy) October 16, 2021
I guess I’m going to have to say some things that should be obvious.
It is 2021. The U.S. minimum wage should be $26 per hour.[1] Read more
So, my new apartment is the sort of place where delivery people need to follow fucking directions. But of course, with Amazon’s labor practices, they’re too rushed to do so. Most stuff I can get delivered to my private mailbox, but with groceries from Whole Foods, owned by Amazon, I simply have to go in and pick up these orders myself.
It was on my way back from such a pickup that I noticed a large pickup truck, but a bit diminutive by Donald Trump supporter standards,[1] with stickers referring to U.S. Highway 395; to Lone Pine, a community along U.S. 395 in a valley on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; and to the vehicle owner’s profession of belief in sasquatch (“big foot”). Read more
I can only address the California forest management argument detailed at length in the Sacramento Bee[1] from a systems theory perspective. The result elucidates but does not resolve the question. Read more
See update for October 24, 2021, at end of post.
In his latest, George Monbiot really reprises a theme[1] I first saw in John Bodley’s Victims of Progress. The critique specifically is that our system of social organization, being dependent upon resource extraction is environmentally unsustainable, and must expand—colonizing, building empires— to survive.[2] Monbiot attributes this, however, to capitalism, rather than the entire political and economic system.[3] Read more
Naturism has much to commend it, an affirmation of human bodies paired with a rejection of body-shaming, respect for women paired with a prohibition on ogling, among them. But a conceit is that by disrobing socially, one erases the markers of class, that rich and poor are free to mingle. Read more