Point…Taken?
A chance interaction with an Instagram video makes one wonder. . . but only a little
Category: People and Society
A Fait Accompli
The evangelical-fascist movement won an enormous victory at SCOTUS. So what do we do now?
Impossible Dreams
Revisiting Brave New World and a new perspective on dystopia
Who’s the Real Silent Majority?
Both the political right and left claim to represent most Americans… but do either?
It’s Not You. . . It’s Us
Who is to blame for the planet’s increasingly inevitable ecological collapse? I am not asking whether climate change is a product of human action or not (of course it is) — what I am asking is whether the crisis is being driven largely by corporate greed and government corruption or if we (i.e. the consumers […]
A Different Kind of Pipeline
A meditation on the failure of emergency medicine when faced with psychiatric crisis
Phantoms in the Fieldhouse
House Bill 358 — Continuing the War Against Transgender North Carolinians
Fear and Loathing in the Pandemic
A meditation on how the pandemic has challenged trust and stoked all manner of fears
Just Because You Can…
It can be difficult reading articles that highlight shortcomings and failures within systems you, on the whole, endorse and support. This difficulty presented upon reading Harold Braswell’s editorial in The Washington Post commenting on alleged abuses suffered by disabled Canadian citizens. As someone with family connections to Canada and as a proponent of universal healthcare […]
One More Step Towards the Cliff
We weren’t prepared. We’re still not prepared.
Antidote Notes 