#Pocalypso | 21st Human Rights Awards
2020-06-03 – Ayer por la tarde (yesterday evening), I attended (virtually) the 21st Human Rights Awards sponsored by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). That’s the organization I do volunteer […]
Tag Archives: Politics
Final Jeopardy Question: Kristallnacht? Or the End of Trump?
2020-06-02 – Yesterday, Donald Trump made a speech of sorts to the nation threatening to dominate looters and rioters. Like all Trump speeches it was a hodge-podge of slogans, but […]
#Pocalypso | Bike Riding and Rioting
2020-06-01 – There was rioting in Chicago yesterday and I went for a bike ride. There is no connection between these two things. They are just two aspects of living […]
#Pocalypso | I Do This to Hurt You (Even if it Hurts Me, Too)
2020-05-27 – Once you label someone the enemy, there’s a big temptation to take positions that are opposite of the enemy’s positions, regardless of what those positions are. We do […]
#Pocalypso | Not Everything Is a Friggin’ Chore
2020-05-26 – Hope y’all had a good weekend. I did. Let me tell you about the day I had yesterday. I woke up, put on my pants, got the leash […]
#Pocalypso | I’m Wearing a Mask—But Not for You
2020-05-22 – I am stoically wearing a mask. But I’m doing it for me, not for you. Mask advocates have been circulating the idea that you should wear a mask […]
#Pocalypso | Is 66% the Mark of the Beast
2020-05-14 – There’s a statistic floating around the right-wing conspiracy world: it’s that 66% of the hospitalizations in New York are from people sheltering in place. This is held up […]
#Pocalypso | Could a “Logic Bomb” Cause a Trumpster to Explode?
2020-05-08 – Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, a common trope of sci-fi was a computer or robot getting more and more agitated after encountering a logical paradox until it […]
#Pocalypso | Why I Don’t Carry a Gun
2020-05-06 – In the morning, while I’m waiting for the shower to warm up, I often flip to Facebook. This morning it showed me an essay from a grandpa saying […]
#Pocalypso | A Fragment of Truth About COVID
2020-04-30 – Is there even a fragment of truth about COVID coming out of the Trump White House? The answer is yes and no. That really is the problem. Trump […]
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