Are things really that bad?

The previous post was rather gloomy. Sorry about that – because of my job, I spend a lot of time online and large portions of the Internet have become galleries of sociopathy. It scares me. But then sometimes I talk to actual people in my actual town who are just proceeding as normal and feeling… Continue reading Are things really that bad?

Assorted notes

For the rest of this summer I’ll be working, tending a garden, and reading War and Peace so that if Americans are all shooting each other a few months from now, my last words won’t be “But I never read War and Peace!” Apropos how Americans feel about each other, if you try to follow… Continue reading Assorted notes