Category Archives: Agora

Squelch

From the New York Times today I learned about the controversy involving Rebecca Journey’s course “The Problem of Whiteness” at the University of Chicago (my alma mater). Like many, if not most, modern controversies, this one begins with a misunderstanding … Continue reading

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Unhappy

The headline for a New York Times op-ed piece: “There is No Happy Ending to America’s Trump Problem.” Stop the presses! Fixing the biggest mistake in U.S. history will not be easy or painless! Who’d’a thunk? The task at hand … Continue reading

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Tired

You may be tired of Covid, but Covid is not tired of you. Let that sink in. And think about how so many big proud hominids are letting a microscopic bit of pseudo-life outsmart them.

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Christofascism

One year to the day after musing about the diet of fireflies, I am awash in bitter thoughts in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the U.S. Supreme Catholic Court. Yes, just days before, the USSCC threw … Continue reading

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Hydrosonic

Months ago, Trump elicited guffaws in the non-Trumpist press and social media when he bragged about an amazing new “hydrosonic missile” purportedly under development. In the intervening time he has repeated the phrase—today, for instance: Note how he uses both … Continue reading

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Spiders

It appears that my beloved baseball team, the Cleveland Indians, is seriously considering a name change. While many thought the only problem with the team’s image was the ignobly grinning Chief Wahoo, others insisted the name itself is racist, even … Continue reading

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Terminology

“Please answer me quite frankly. Are you absolutely convinced it’s plague?” “You’re stating the problem wrongly. It’s not a question of the term I use; it’s a question of time.” “Your view, I take it,” the Prefect put in, “is … Continue reading

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Rot

Donald John Trump was impeached yesterday. Finally. He got off with a mere two counts, but that is enough to tag him forever as a derelict thug. More importantly, perhaps, the impeachment process made glaringly obvious the thorough decrepitude of … Continue reading

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Clausectomy

Josh Marshall, among many others, noted the tendentious editing perpetrated a month ago by the Don’s personal attorney general in ever so briefly summarizing the Mueller report, which was finally released today, sort of (lots of missing stuff). What William … Continue reading

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Deliverance

Where, if we could, would we send him, this heartless ignorant shell of a man? Someplace without clean running water, neither hot nor cold, no water at all, let him clean himself in the dust by the road like a … Continue reading

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