Recent Blog Posts
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Letter to the editor
Published today in the Wichita Eagle: Justice system ignored facts I don’t know whether to feel saddened or enraged from reading about the man choked to death on a New York City street. The sources indicate this type of restraint by law enforcement officers was banned 20 years ago, yet a Staten Island grand jury…
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Dawkins leads charge, is startled by army
We Hunted the Mammoth is a good site to read if you don’t know what the men’s rights movement is. If you’ve ever heard the acronym “MRA” and not understood what it means, that’s where I’d suggest you go (hint: the “A” stands for “activist”). So I guess it’s only fitting that Dave Futrelle, author…
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I’m not angry about Matt Taylor’s shirt
Nope, I’m not. Matt Taylor apologized– apparently sincerely. Nobody I actually know is angry at him now, if they were before. I’m angry at the horde of people who are: Shrieking on Twitter and any other social media site that he shouldn’t have apologized, because he did nothing wrong and they need him to be…
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The Overwatch girls
Note: Follow-up posts here, here, and here. ————————————————- Yesterday at BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment’s annual conference in Anaheim, Blizzard unveiled a new game. Yeah, I know, so what? New games are announced all the time. Heck, Blizzard announces new games all the time. So what was it this time– a new expansion for World of Warcraft? Starcraft…
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The cure for cancer
I love this because it illustrates some really bizarre assumptions and why they’re bizarre. Like the all-too-common-among-pro-lifers assumption that an unborn fetus represents absolutely limitless possibility. Unborn fetuses are positively magical that way– they could cure cancer, end world hunger, invent a perpetual motion machine, anything! They could save the world in a thousand different…
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#Inktober 2014
I got a late start– not for any good reason, but because it just completely slipped my mind until October 3rd that it was Inktober– but I’m participating. I’m posting drawings here, as well as on Twitter and Facebook. As with last year, the quality varies. I’m trying to do something unfamiliar each time, and…