Apropos of nothing in particular, I figured I'd post this because it's often hard in conversation to articulate how one political party in the US has become instead a countercultural, anti-progressive, neo-fascist personality cult bent on subverting elections and glorifying insurrectionary violence: “"So what happens in a two-party sys...

Why is Knives Out so good, but The Last Jedi is so terrible?

Let's say you wanted to invest in publicly-traded companies, with a mind to capture profits and dividends from them and do useful things with those dollars. Would it be morally acceptable to buy from companies that are highly profitable, whose business models you don't believe in or endorse, but spent the money earned on goals and prio...

Testing to see what happens if I attach an image to the post. Here's one in the middle: And here's one at the end:

Jason Fried is right (again). Setting up a personal blog has always involved too much friction for me. I've long intended to maintain one, all the way back to my first exposure to blogger.com in 1999. Movable Type, Textpattern, Wordpress, Medium, Ghost -- if it involves a way to type words into a white <textarea> box online, I've start...