Everyone around me yesterday who ventured out to view the Eclipse was strikingly happy and friendly. It was as if the cosmos bestowed on us a general sense of good mood and good fortune, in addition to a spectacular celestial phenomenon. The collective experience of unusual natural events seems to promot...
Last week, I went to one of the first legal psilocybin mushroom clinics in the United States. In 2020, the wise people of Oregon voted to permit the establishment of such clinics, wherein this mysterious, naturally-occurring psychoactive compound can be safely administered to adults in a controlled...
Last night I took part in a debate sponsored by the website ZeroHedge, on the question of whether one Donald J. Trump ought to be the next President of the United States. As an equal opportunity hater, endowed by our glorious Constitution with the eternal right to oppose everybody, I of course argue...
Apologies if you’ve heard me go over this before, but sometimes I find it bears repeating. And I’ll admit I’m repeating this today because for whatever reason I find myself especially agitated about it. In late 2021 and early 2022, I was publicly skeptical
On November 20, 2023, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote in a joint letter to the CEO of TikTok that the platform was guilty of “stoking anti-Semitism, support, and sympathy for Hamas” after the October 7 attack on Israel. “This deluge of pro-Hama...
American politicians have been systematically deceiving the public since Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figure, died in an Arctic prison last month. Seemingly within seconds of the death being reported, elected officials far and wide began boisterously proclaiming that to honor Navalny’s legacy...