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Idu nay wapisudu pe
Among the Iwi of Pulau Tengkorak, a wapisudu is a specific type of dream: a dream that heralds illness, and that is also believed to suggest causes and treatments.
This morning, a wapisudu. Along a curved stretch of highway familiar to me, there is a hill. On the face of the hill, utility workers, tree-wreckers, were working. The face of the ( Read more... ) -
Notes on Cant XXXI
Pick your favorite search engine and search for this:
What should a feminist wear?
For me, at least, the intuitive answer is 'whatever she wants.' Why do I suspect it will turn out to be way more complicated than that?
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The Salesman as Social Pirate
Wrote this back in 2002 for a long dead website called Kuro5hin. Worth saving, I think.
THE SALESMAN AS SOCIAL PIRATE
Sales cold calls --- calling on strangers and proposing that they buy something --- are in every case immoral. They break the Golden Rule, every time. More importantly, they are parasites on our willingness to read email, answer ( Read more... ) -
Alien theologies
Look at it this way. When I hear 'privilege' and 'power' and 'intersectionality', I react to them about the same way as I would to 'sunnah' or 'transubstantiation' or 'ahimsa'. These words are about the theological concepts of a religion I don't believe in.
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Seamless web
A seamless web of hostility against all forms of moral-policing is what I aim for.
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Franken
If the criminal justice system decided to proceed against what Franken actually did, it would have gotten pled down to a minor misdemeanor at most. And that would be the correct response by law and precedent. This is how we reward someone who gave up a life of successful minor celebrity to serve his country ( Read more... ) -
Jerusalem
Nuke it. Nuke it peacefully for maximum cratering, after announcing its peaceful evacuation. There probably will be people who will not abandon Jerusalem before the countdown; too bad ( Read more... )