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A group of figures in business suits, masks, and blindfolds surround and point at a giant goat with a bird perched on its head.

Scapegoating Costs Lives

I think about an interview Newsom gave this week on the same day that authorities in Vermont announced that Lia Smith had died by suicide, and I harden my resolve.

Promotional photo of cast for Season 1 of Un Village Français

It takes a French village

If snitches get stitches, what should collaborators get?

A metro station with a prominent sign with an arrow reading "Red Line"

Make Mine a Venti

What's My Line?

I've been meaning to follow up my recent rant about the Democrats with a more general spleen-venting at the American public, who in-toto saw fit to allow President Shitbird to come back to power. I was going to focus on the spectrum from Trump-loving red hats to those

A robot arm hovers over food ingredients on a cooking surface with data readouts in the background.

Robots Are People, Too

I once had the opportunity to chat with science fact and fiction author Annalee Newitz at a Bay Area Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl shortly after they had published their first novel Autonomous, and I remember asking how they were able to imagine a future that wasn't a total

Nation of Idiots

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Nation of Idiots

When Sigmund Freud said that depression is anger turned inward, he meant that internalized shame becomes anger at oneself which, unresolved, can lead to depression. Most people, being idiots, like to take the good head-doctor’s words to mean that unexpressed anger at others leads to depression, therefore they must

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Where's the outrage?

Where's the outrage?

Note: Right after I originally hit publish on this yesterday, I read news of our bombing attack on Iran. Always some new, bigger outrage with these chaos monkeys America saw fit to put in charge, somehow making my concerns for the trans community feel like a hill of beans in

A crosswalk sign with a stop sign above it.

Should I stay or should I go?

Early in the 20th Century, the families of my maternal and paternal grandparents were part of the tremendous wave of Jewish people to flee Russian poverty and pogroms. Most of my relatives made their way to the United States. My mother's father, however, decided to settle his family

A Consequence of Wishes

A Consequence of Wishes

Here's a short story I wrote before the election as an exercise in therapy. KT walked her daily walk along the beautiful ocean beach, ignoring the surf and the surfers and the sand castles and sandpipers. She thought only about the dozens of things making her scared and