Pwager Ewert’s Safe Bet (A Prologue)

Disclaimer: There's been a rather major revelation (no pun intended) in the time between when this was written and when it's being posted. Suffice to say, he's dug himself a very deep hole that spells out the word "shallow" when viewed from above. There are more entries in this series, but they're needing practically top…

It’s Only Death

A talking point that's been getting a lot more buzz lately than it should regarding the pandemic is this notion of the death toll being blown up, that these deaths are what we see every year from the flu or other illnesses and conditions, but now they've got a fancy new coat of paint. For…

Dumb With A Capital Duh

Another day, another "plz subz my chanel!!!" question-that's-not-actually-a-question on Quora. It's a fairly straightforward demonstration of a total lack of self-awareness, how the same people who get the most irked by spam often espouse a fair bit of it themselves. On this particular day, though, someone took it a step further. To be fair, the…

Virtual Insanity

I've started work on another entry about the notion of refusing to hear certain arguments or suggestions, not because of deliberate ignorance, but simply to avoid wars of attrition (that is, it's a bad argument the first time you've heard it, so why would the hundredth time be any different?). By coincidence, I get a…

Privilege and the Pirate

If you want to discuss privilege and inequality when it comes to employment, healthcare, education, and security, I will gladly hear you out. In fact, I'd be the choir to your preacher. I'm fully in agreement these massive gaps in income or standards of living across the world as well as our own backyards are…

Heart Work (Aorta)

This is only tangentially linked to the previous two entries. In fact, it's almost an afterthought. It's something I've been thinking about a for a long time and especially recently with all this discussion about the "illusion" of a meritocracy. When Trey Parker and Matt Stone created The Spirit of Christmas, they did not put…

Heart Work (Right Chamber)

My entry about Fortran Caliber came alongside a similar post from another user, this time about the marketing angle of YouTube as understood by people who know nothing about marketing, or learned it from Tom Arnold. That last part isn't fair, and I'm sorry, Tom. This all carries on from what I said before about…

Heart Work (Left Chamber)

I hate the phrase "1% Inspiration/99% Perspiration." I understand it, and I don't disagree with it in principle, but too many people assign the wrong values to its numbers. As a wise one once said, "Numbers don't lie. People do." Think about it. What exactly do those percentages represent? Are they time spent on a…

Cop and a Half

WHATCHAGONNA DO,WHATCHAGONNA DO, OH WHATCHAGONNA DO WHEN THEY TOO DUMB TO DOTHEIR JOBS, THEIR JOBS!? I'll spare you the screenshots of the discussion that led to this. It hardly matters; too many people think Kyle Rittenhouse had no reason to raise suspicions in the officers called to the scene with reports of shots being fired.

Split-Second Guess

Have I ever mentioned that Rashomon is one of my all-time favorite movies? I adore the storytelling device of multiple perspectives, even when its done for laughs like that episode of 21 Jump Street that was more or less my introduction to the very concept years before I actually saw the Kurosawa film. My sociology…