Archive for Improving Society
I think it’s fascinating to observe toxic masculinity in action in Westerns. (Some quasi-spoilers here for Shane (1953).) In this...
I'm watching Underground season 2, episode 1, “Contraband,” and I just got to a scene in which one of the...
Several interesting and informative Tesla Model 3 links: Specs and prices, including prices for various options, from the official Tesla...
I've long loved John McCutcheon's 1991 rendition of Leon Rosselson's 1975 song “The World Turned Upside Down” (not to be...
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...
Another lesson for me on the difficulty of seeing outside your own cultural context: In Delany's City of a Thousand...
I've been really enjoying the current storyline in Agents of SHIELD. It's doing a virtual-reality take on a sort of...
I was driving along in the right lane of a Mountain View street the other week when I passed a...
The other day, I pulled Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, off my unread-books shelf. I decided that I didn't really...
My 9th-grade English teacher, Mr. Eymil, gave us a surprise in-class writing assignment one day in 1983. He told us...
This is a long impassioned post in which I try to come to the defense of Marvel comics. The TL;DR...
Long but fascinating article about the effectiveness of various means of contacting US members of Congress. It contradicts some things...