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Cranky Canuck Torontonian. Failed repeatedly to get a job as corporate philosopher. Internet smarty-pants. These opinions are mine and not someone else’s. Pronouns: it/they, or whatever else you like, but I will absolutely respect yours.
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A proposal: the United States should replace “The Star Spangled Banner” with the They Might Be Giants song “Your Racist Friend”. Two reasons: the range is one most people have a hope of reaching, and also it might bend the arc of history the right way.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The thing about “crossing the Rubicon” is that it happened _once_, and after that everything Caesar did was unlawful (until, of course, the law changed retroactively). And, of course, the Rubicon was way back there when Joe Biden won.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

This is what happens when people elect right wing governments. They go after books and libraries. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

And then, there are the CEOs who later go to prison. See? See?!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments