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There’s no way around it. No matter how precisely you express yourself, no matter how carefully you check your facts, no matter whether they’re even…
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In the beginning, there was LGB. And it was good. Lesbian, gay and bisexual people shared a common fight for the right to live their lives free from…
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Last week, a friend who follows my writing, pointed out that “progressives” have been the target of a lot of my ire recently. And it’s true. The reason…
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It’s been pointed out numerous times, by various people, that some of today’s “anti-racist” efforts have swung all the way back around into outright…
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As you might expect, I’m a big fan of words. I love reading them, I love crafting them, I love their shades of meaning and tone. But their true value is…
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Empathy is a finite resource. Like food and patience and attention. We use it for the people we care about first, and only extend it to others if we…
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A few months ago I watched this fascinating interview with a schizophrenic woman named Cecelia. Cecelia suffers from frequent, often terrifying…
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There are some things that pretty much everybody agrees on. Ice cream is delicious, war is bad, and the n-word is the worst word in the English…
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The English language has had a rough few years. “Literally” has become its own antonym, “they” is clinging desperately to its linguistic usefulness, and…
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Subscriber Thread - April 2022When I tell people what I do for a living, one of the first questions I get asked is; “aren’t you afraid you’ll run out of things to write about?” I…
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Here’s something you won’t know about unless it’s a part of your “lived experience”: If you’re a race writer (you may also need to be black, I’m not…
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Figuring out what “side” people are on is hard. There are all these pesky matters of nuance and perspective and critical thought. So instead, we’ve…
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