corrections & predictions on the fourth anniversary of Trump’s first failed insurrection
I recently alluded to a rumor that the world’s richest man uses “sock puppet” accounts to defend his honor – not unlike John Barron, publicist extraor...
Category: people
We’ve stopped knowing when to say when.
Have you ever had sushi? A small piece of rice. A small piece of fish. And it is perfect. To get something – even pain – in just the right amount, is the greate...
how to stereo
Most of film culture has been built around monocular capture and reproduction. A single camera lens produces a flat image. The flatness of the image has l...
sep 29 2020
On growing older wiser
that migrant life
When you’re a migrant, be it a refugee or an immigrant, you’re forever an outsider. You’re no longer fully of the culture you left and yo...
First families
I slept fitfully and repeatedly dreamed of the migrant family, as enshrined by Christianity. La familia sagrada. The holy family versus Herod, the king. The fam...
Skateboarding is for losers.
“Why not tennis?” I’m asked, “or golf? Why does it have to be skateboarding?”
count(word, sort=TRUE)
I recently deleted my facebook account, after downloading my data. this is a quick look at the most frequent words in my posts as well as how often I posted dur...
Boundary issues
Friston draws a carefully regulated boundary around his inner life, guarding against intrusions, many of which seem to consist of “worrying about other people.”...
Catholic Celibacy and Cuban Communism
In the early 1960s, two very different regimes attempted to remake humanity: Still, the revolution was most astonishing not for its radical redistribution of we...
quasi-public spaces
From my Facebook account, July 23, 2015: [note: I saw a man, apparently homeless, using a Starbucks cup to justify his occupying space in an outdoor seating are...
the normal
I just scanned the most recent issue of “14 y medio”, a banned / clandestine news digest from Cuba. You won’t be surprised that the stories are about struggle. ...
Spanishes
Free advice, actually worth a lot. I’ve been married to a Mexican for almost 20 years and I’ve slowly learned that Mexicans communicate in a way tha...
Facebook is made out of…
very good critics point out that Facebook is engineered to be addictive. but they seldom recognize that the pleasure being meted out is OTHER PEOPLE. for exampl...
Wheels of fortune
Smart people become irrational around technology. We want absolutes, purity and simple answers; whether it’s being anti-GMO or bullish on AI, the impulse ...
Facebook users deserve all their feels.
Facebook is software for managing your feelings. It promises to be a tool for strengthening relationships – primarily, as a replacement for email – but it is en...
diagnosis
the diagnosis of “mentally ill” is often used to strip people of their liberty. by governments and by family members, alike. we Americans don’...
tired of winning
David Segal reviewing Norman Ohler’s Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany: By 1944, the doctor had trouble finding veins to shoot. Then, as the Allies bombed th...
Anxiety, Conspiracy
Kimberly Guiler on Turkey, ourselves: Political attitudes are most malleable when prevailing conditions threaten people’s economic or personal security and caus...