If you follow virus news at all, you’ll undoubtedly have heard of herd immunity. The official consensus is that herd […]
Archive for ‘Pieces’

Karen vs. Swatzilla: the uselessness of the “Karen” meme
This cropped up in my feed yesterday: Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the […]
Confidential to M.A.: I don’t doubt that your home state’s lottery commission mandates a customer-facing ad screen n its lottery […]

Some of us are can remember 2009, Joe
I get that Joe Biden would like potential voters to be talking about something, anything other than Tara Reade. And […]

A layman’s view of Coronaville
There’s a virus going around. I can safely assume you’ve heard of it already, because you’re reading this post and […]
The state of the Circus, April 2020
One silver lining of the Plague, its domination of the news media, and the related cancellation of most public gatherings […]

Gary the phone scammer, and other idiots
Sometimes it isn’t customers or coworkers making my job harder or damaging my calm. Sometimes it’s phone scammers. The one […]

OK, shill: a clothing ad’s obnoxious voterism
A video ad for Levi’s jeans cropped up in my Tiwtter timeline yesterday. Its virality was due to the first […]

The urge to burn it all down
There are more than two posts on this blog. It might have been otherwise. Once in a while, I become […]

On not writing: an overextended fishing metaphor
Writing this blog is a bit like fishing in a small pond. I can see movement in the water every […]