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Disillusionment
Read moreMy fellow humans disappoint me. Unspeakable violence reverberates. The world is made badly.
Donald likes his spankings
Read moreThere’s a not insignificant part of Donald that likes being spanked by Nancy.
On not writing
Read moreI’ve been writing a LOT less lately. Some thoughts about why that might be.
Blocked
Read moreI’m finding it challenging to write. My internal censor has been very active lately.
Politics
Read moreHeal my broken country.
Reply to a disgruntled reader
Read moreA reader doesn’t like my writing, doesn’t like me. But keeps coming back. I respond.
On youthful indiscretions
Read moreIt’s not so much what Kavanaugh did or didn’t do. It’s his response to facially plausible allegations that renders him unfit.
I’m utterly consumed
Read moreCall me naive, but… If Kavanaugh is confirmed, this country is in for one hell of a generational shitstorm. And I’m utterly devastated.
More on kavanaugh
Read moreNYT columnist Bret Stephens writes what he intends to be a balanced consideration of the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. He fails, and, instead, aligns himself with the misogynists who run our government.
We aren’t exterminating…
Read more“Criminal alien” is the language of demonization, not enforcement. Immigrants don’t scare me. White nationalist sociopaths? They terrify me.
This is not who we are?
Read moreIt’s 1933. We’re Germany. For serious. Are you a Nazi? Or are you in the Resistance?
A quick note on north korea
Read moreI’m scared.
What are you writing?
Read moreWhat am I writing? Wouldn’t you like to know….
Booty call at the bar?
Read moreA beautiful stranger and I share a connection at the bar, but she leaves with someone else. I’m envious, sort of, and I’m projecting, and I know it.
I’m off my game
Read moreI’m not quite my usual self….
Energy
Read moreMy writing is much less manic than it once was.
Benjamin wittes
Read moreIn which Michael Doran demonstrates the intellectual bankruptcy of Trumpism. And, I demonstrate my man-crush on Ben Wittes.
Rip roy moore
Read moreGood riddance to a hateful fuck.
Objectify – a little bit of harvey weinstein in me
Read moreSome friends and I have dinner, and objectify the waitress. In a way I’m embarrassed to say I’ve done forever. I see just a little Harvey Weinstein in myself.
#metoo?
Read more#metoo, but different
