April 17, 2024

My wife's surgery has been rescheduled for six weeks from now. We just have to make it through the next six weeks. Read more

April 17, 2024

• Apparently the “Stronger Men’s Conference” is still a thing (see this 2018 post, “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Attend The ‘Stronger Men’s Conference’“). The lineup of biblically masculine speakers for this year’s event included Mark Driscoll, who is apparently also still a thing (see this 2014 post, “The gospel of misogyny“). Driscoll’s appearance at this year’s conference was cut short, however, when he used his time to rail against the “Jezebel Spirit”* of the previous night’s... Read more

April 16, 2024

I am not an expert in finance and investment, but I don't recommend buying stock in Trump Media. Read more

April 12, 2024

What do you do if you're on an airplane and half of the passengers disappear into thin air? If you're Buck Williams, you make a phone call. Read more

April 10, 2024

Take time to listen to Masha Gessen, Naomi Klein, Wendy Brown, Eric K. Ward, Adam Kotsko, Jessica Valenti, and Schuyler Bailar. Read more

April 8, 2024

How do you start with the premise that All People Are Bad, but then balk at ACAB? By worshipping hierarchies that you pretend create exceptions to that premise. Read more

April 5, 2024

We're gonna need a lot more bees. Plus: Animal-torturers for Trump, and Why We Can't Have Nice Things. Read more

April 5, 2024

"Left Behind" gives us a thin sketch of a Drunk Business Man on a Plane stock comic character. He's the closest thing to an actual human in this book so far. Read more

April 3, 2024

David Bentley Hart on "forgive us our debts" and how Florida Republicans are embracing New Age woo woo to "own the libs." Read more

April 2, 2024

A former cult leader is helping Andrew Wommack take "dominion" over one Colorado city. Read more


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