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There’s always next year
The last time the San Diego Padres won the National League pennant and played in the World Series was 1998. I was eleven years old, very excited to watch them play on baseball’s biggest stage, and very disappointed to see them get steamrolled by the Yankees (who were steamrolling everybody in those days). I don’t… Continue reading
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Stand up to ICE, any way you can
Yesterday, agents of ICE used force against the people of Salem, Oregon. The news reports may focus on the spraying of tear gas on protestors, but this is only one episode in a campaign of terror. Our neighbors have been forced to hide and flee to escape kidnapping and the forcible separation of their families.… Continue reading
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Red meat for dipshits who are afraid of cities
Maybe you’ve read about Donald Trump’s recent riffs about how losing Los Angeles or San Diego in a nuclear attack by Iran would be an acceptable loss. Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who gets their news by watching videos, you’ve even heard it from his stupid, stupid lips. How could he even joke… Continue reading
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Superstars
The superstars subside among the stars—I mean, the stars among the light pollution.Every day it feels harder, tellinglight from blindness, photographs from fakes,and terror from the loneliness of fate,but hark—the earth is beautiful, the birdsare beautiful, the trees are beautiful,and all the while the superstars are shiningbright as ever, waiting for the nightwe’ll tear the… Continue reading
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We Will Always Need Feminism
To start with, let’s define who “we” are. I am not a woman, so I am employing an expansive definition of that pronoun—by “we” I mean the whole community of human beings that live on this Earth, now and into the foreseeable future. That’s who the audience for feminism is, and that’s who needs to… Continue reading
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We’ve Gone Heat Pump
Yes, we have, and I’m pretty excited about it. Our home will henceforth be cooled in the summer and warmed in the winter by a single energy-efficient device, powered by electricity and silent as a light summer breeze. I hope that more people will soon embrace the pump, both for lower bills and the benefit… Continue reading
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How best to honor September Eleventh
Especially if you are a white American— Speak out against the bigotry that has falsely defined itself as patriotic. Commit yourself to a pluralism so thorough that it does not hesitate to embrace Muslims as an integral part of “we the people.” Do whatever it is you do best on behalf of immigrants and refugees.… Continue reading
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Mercator-Schmercator
Recently, the U.N. General Assembly voted to endorse a version of the world map that more accurately depicts the relative size of the Earth’s landmasses. As usual when this issue pops up, the discourse has focused on the apparent size of Africa, an enormous continent which appears to be suspiciously modest on some common types… Continue reading
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Climate Realism vs Despair
If you have been aware of the news lately, you’ve likely heard about a grim forecast from the United Nations: The goal of limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius above “normal” will almost certainly not be achieved. This means that the extraordinary weather-related disasters we have begun to see will not only… Continue reading
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Every Election Matters
I want to state this very plainly, because I don’t think we in the United States have any more room to mess around—we cannot afford to ignore the stakes of the upcoming midterm elections. It is a cliché to describe every election yet to come as the most important one in our lifetimes. It is… Continue reading
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