I’m stealing my theme for 2026 from The Mountain Goats: “I’m gonna make it through this year if it kills me.“ I’ve been trying to get healthier for a while now, and just this week, as winter is at its metaphorical and actual darkest, I hit a goal I thought was unthinkable – I’ve lost […]
I have a draft post all about 2025, but you know what? Fuck 2025. It was a complicated year and I’m tired of thinking about it. I’d rather listen to music, hang out with friends and get ready to vote against every Republican I can for as long as I can until they take that […]
What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead […]
My nonsensical House rep, Buddy Carter, filed a bill to rename Greenland to “Red, White and Blueland.” This isn’t the first time Buddy’s been ridiculous in public, embarrassing his constituents. Here’s a letter I sent to him this morning. Dear Mr. Carter, What are you doing? Greenland doesn’t belong to us. It’s not ours to […]
Automattic, the owner of both Tumblr and WordPress, admitted that they’re working with AI companies to sell their users’ creations to help train AI models. This site has been on WordPress for a long time, and moved WordPress installations between hosts at least twice. This is so hard to take. So much of the web […]
This post is… I don’t know where it’s going to go, but I feel like I need to write my way through it. Let’s see what happens. But before that, I need to cover some history: It’s now 2023 and I’m still working at Gusto, and loving it. I love having work/life balance finally, and […]
Hello, White Guy here. I was thinking about Black History Month this morning and decided that I’d share my favorite books relevant to exploring and celebrating black history. Because I am, as stated previously, an White Guy, this list isn’t exhaustive, but all of the books in this list expanded my perspective and taught me […]
Shame on you, Buddy Carter, for celebrating DeSantis’ immoral stunt in your weekly newsletter. How dare you support using the most desperate and helpless among us as pawns in a publicity stunt. Shame on you. Not just for celebrating it but by misrepresenting the support the people illegally transported, and then abandoned, were given by […]
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, and Clarence Thomas’s “roadmap” for which freedoms the extremists on the court and their allies will attack next has crystalized something in my mind that has been percolating since Alito’s draft was leaked. I’m a single issue voter now. That issue is bodily autonomy and […]
The shootings in Buffalo and Texas have wrecked me – and I can’t keep watching the same old arguments fly by in screenshotted tweets in Instagram stories. It’s all so predictable and isn’t going to change anything. And that makes this grief feel worse. This thought keeps pinging around in my head and it won’t […]