I went and saw The Last Jedi again last night, and I liked the movie a whole lot more the second time than the first. I thought about why for most of the day before I sat down to write this, and did some reading about other people’s responses to the movie. My partner asked an…
My car wouldn’t start this morning. Luckily, my parents live nearby, so my daughter was only about fifteen minutes late to school. Then, I called AAA and waited around for them to come. The guy arrived and it wasn’t the battery. I was hoping it was the battery. That’s a relatively cheap, easy fix. He…
Meritocracy seems great. Who could be against the idea of people getting economic benefits, societal benefits, and even government positions based on merit? Plato believed it was the most just political order possible. Who am I to argue against Plato? Well, I’m a nobody and probably have no place arguing against Plato, but I’m going…
Whenever I see a car or house that’s flying an American flag, I become wary. To me, displaying the flag is indicative of a type of chauvinism that ignores the bigotry, prejudice and violence of American history- after all, if you’re aware of how America has treated ethnic and religious minorities and women, then how…
When The Force Awakens was released, it had a low bar to get over. It had to be as good as The Phantom Menace. That’s it. If it had been at least as good as The Phantom Menace, The Force Awakens would have been perfectly satisfying. Instead, it was one of the worst movies imaginable….
I don’t hate commercials. I know that makes me a freak and you probably don’t want to be my friend anymore, but I don’t hate commercials. As a matter of fact, I often kind of like them. I really think you should give them a chance. If you think about them, I’ll bet you’d like…
Sixteen years and half a dozen relationships doesn’t change as much as you’d think it would. You’d think that a demonstrated ability to attract women would make one feel better. But I still feel that burning, tearing sensation whenever insecurities boil up inside of me. Like fire is going to come pouring out of my…
I just saw The Last Jedi for a second time. I still don’t know what to make of it. It’s fine, I guess, sort of. It’s as least more OK than could be expected given that it’s the second chapter of a story started by Force Awakens. Nothing’s really changed since I last wrote about…
Former President Barack Obama gave an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic this month where he talked about why he thinks American politics has become so bad. It’s bullshit from beginning to end. But it’s easy to say that something is bullshit, so let me show you how Obama and Goldberg spread bullshit about…
Connecticut has the best pizza in the world. That’s just a simple fact. It might upset a bunch of New Yorkers, Chicagoans, and maybe some Italians, but it’s true (California pizza doesn’t even deserve to be called pizza). New Haven style pizza (or apizza as it’s locally known) is famous, and deservedly so. It’s wonderful….
