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Personal essays

Gripes and grandiloquence that may not interest people who don't know me and don't care to.

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Avoiding alcohol comes with no guarantees of personal or external sanity, but drinking is still about the ugliest way there is to kill yourself

May 16

Dispatches from a study in the carefree expansion of automobile-reliant sprawl

May 9

With society fragmented into hate-groups operating in various private realities, is anyone really surprised that kids feel as fucked up as they look?

Apr 25

Numbers may not tell the entire story in team sports, but they add up to a narrative every fan wants: Faster, stronger, more coordinated bodies

Apr 16

Rosie nearly scores a shorthanded goal Watch now (19 sec) | A brief introduction to Substack's new video feature

Apr 15

"It's all fake news! More love for all lives!" screams a citizenry enslaved by media deception and the gruesome allure of eternal divisiveness, micro…

Apr 13

Warfare is not a misanthrope's dream, but his most validating nightmare. And it's been successfully packaged in 2022 as a version of March Madness

Apr 6

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