The death of Brian Thompson is as sad as sad can beWho else could lead such a stand-up company?Train your workers, deny those claimsDon’t think of people, they’re just names Forget about those violationsListen to us corporationsYou don’t want healthcare for allProfits vanish, prices fall Bankruptcy from hospital billsLavish parties for corporate shillsSome deaths mayContinue reading “Health Insurance CEO: a poem”
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Some Sentences and Phrases that Need Context
Language is one of the most incredible tools that humanity has. I love it. I only know one language, English [obviously], and I know that English gets a bad rap for not making sense, having strange spellings and contradictions, but I love it. I do. Human beings have contradictions! Anyway, whatever language you speak, theContinue reading “Some Sentences and Phrases that Need Context”
Some Quick Thoughts on Anarchism and Chaos
I’ve been reading this book called The Social Instinct by Nichola Raihani, a psychologist who researches the evolution of cooperation of various species. That’s what the book is about, cooperation. Cooperation between members of a given species, cooperation between different species, the evolutionary source of cooperation, and comparing human cooperation to that of other species.Continue reading “Some Quick Thoughts on Anarchism and Chaos”
Things Might Be Better, But They’re Still Bad [and that’s difficult to accept]
Sometimes people work really hard to improve themselves. It is difficult, and there are setbacks. Let’s take alcohol as an example. A person might drink to a point of drunkenness three times per week, on average. They might recognize this as unhealthy, and they might consider their hangovers to be preventing them from doing whatContinue reading “Things Might Be Better, But They’re Still Bad [and that’s difficult to accept]”
High Movie Review #14: Dr. Strangelove
All right, it’s about time to write about this movie. It’s one of my favorites of all time, I’ll just say that right out. So it was directed by Stanley Kubrick, who is kind of a strange, dark, genius type of guy. And it was released in January of 1964, which was just 15 monthsContinue reading “High Movie Review #14: Dr. Strangelove”
Clay Higgins
Today I’d like to write about a tweet from a Republican United States congressman, Clay Higgins of Louisiana. The tweet, posted on February 27th, 2022, reads as follows: “You millennial leftists who never lived one day under nuclear threat can now reflect upon your woke sky. You made quite a non-binary fuss to save theContinue reading “Clay Higgins”
Sports Team Politics
A lot of words have been strewn about in order to describe, diagnose, and cure sports team politics in the United States. If you haven’t read or heard these words, let me summarize: sports fans root for their favorite team no matter what. This leads to contradictory, inconsistent viewpoints and opinions. All you want isContinue reading “Sports Team Politics”
The Doctor Strange Argument
All right, I’m about to go on a rant, and I’m gonna reference an MCU movie in doing so. I don’t like doing it, but I think it’ll help clarify what the fuck I’m talking about, and provide a decent parallel. And maybe this is already a logical fallacy with a name, I don’t know,Continue reading “The Doctor Strange Argument”
Lefty Forrester 