COVID Follies
I feel like I’m in a particularly unrealistic SF novel. The oppressors are supposed to provide ‘bread & circuses.’ In real life, denying people bread & circuses and—here’s the SF part—propaganda makes the people want their own deprivation!
From the Provinces
There is no provincial more provincial than an academic.
Punishing Slavery
If schools will expel students over racism’s history of slavery, will they expel students and fire professors over socialism’s history of slavery?
Panic
Let panic guide the hand of fate.
License Plate Readers
The government can’t tattoo and chip people, so they tattoo and chip their cars. Their dogs and cats, too. You thought that chip was for tracking the dog, eh?
Students Are Prisoners
We must end the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Keep these future prisoners out of our schools so that real students can learn.
Chinese Space Conspiracy
“Like NASA, China has built a sound stage in the desert on which to fake Mars landings” — Conspiracy Theorists.
Wisdom is Hate
All wisdom is hate speech — Augustine of Hippo.
“Not Unless I Woke in Russia This Morning”
Warrants are a bulwark against tyranny only when judges aren’t tyrants.