Change the Locks
A tale of two sisters; the narcissist's demand for reconciliation without reparation, and the lowest rung on justice's ladder
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LOST 039 - Back That Gas Up
Unpacking the TV show LOST — Season 4: Episodes 6-8
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage caused by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
Impeachment is a Duty
The importance of telling a consistent and accurate story on matters of fire.
Total Eclipses
Make light, reflect light, don't block light. Advice to fellow people of privilege on not being an obstacle. Part 2 of 2.
Be Bolder, Not a Boulder
Advice to my fellow people of privilege on not being an obstacle. Part 1 of 2.
So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
Dark isn't the opposite of light, it's the absence of light.
Why Pay For a Free Newsletter?
Answering the questions somebody out there might just be asking.
LOST 038 - A Constant of Sorrows I Am, Man
Unpacking the TV show LOST — Season 4: Episode 5
It All Felt Impossible
A quick break in the action. My friend, the author Tom McAllister, has a book out, and it is, in my opinion, good. So I interviewed him about it.
Shows of Weakness
They've got the tanks. We've got the power.
Winning the Middle
What makes for a purity test? What makes for a big tent? Unpacking the apparently pragmatic demand that we Speak Low about fascists to beat fascism.
A City of Two Tales
What to do when the shining city on a hill is actually a burning plantation. Demolishing the lie of exceptionalism, embracing an aspirational truth.
The Everything & The Submarine
Fighting our present fascist nightmare by leaving the submerged life, and pondering the idle and foolish question of what the meaning of life is, anyway.