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Jan 28, 2025
Atonement for Oligarchs Coming Sooner or Later
A recent study by the NYU Brennan Center for Justice, a watchdog group that studies election law and finance,...
Jan 21, 2025
Canine Copy, the Cloned ‘Winery Dog’ Controversy
The press release’s headline bellowed, “World’s First Cloned Winery Dog, Puppy Arrives in Sonoma County This Week.”
I don’t doubt...
Jan 14, 2025
Let’s Let the Sky
Let’s Let the Sky
A poem
By Robin Lee
let’s let the skyrelax a bit todaylet’s let the cloudslie a little lower
let’s...
Jan 7, 2025
Make More Art in a DOGE Eat DOGE World
Oh, history, that compulsive rerun machine, seems intent on dredging up its greatest hits—only this time, the sequelitis that’s...
Dec 31, 2024
The Second Coming
‘Darkness drops again’
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart;...
Dec 24, 2024
Words of the Year Selected by Prominent Dictionaries
Dictionaries have selected enshittification, brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 words of the year.
The publishers of the Oxford English...
Dec 17, 2024
Human Evolution: A Cautionary Conversation
Me: “Have you heard biologists have found that new human species have evolved recently?”
You: “No, I thought evolution was...
