Do any of us care which pill they took? — Trigger Warning: this article will discuss child abuse, rape and hate. For ages I’ve been trying to figure out how to approach Fundamentalist Christianity and how it uses institutionalized racism to build and maintain structures of racist power. But given there are entire books on the subject and I’m —…

White-Washing Anne Frank — Anne Frank was murdered when she was 15 years old for the crime of being Jewish. Most of her family was also wiped out. …

Cardiac activity in women and other apparent myths. — If the leaked Supreme Court decision is to be believed Roe v. Wade is about to be overturned calling into question the very human rights of women in America. The question called here is not — as Alito tries to state in the very first sentence — whether or not…

Yes, Yes, I know. — When we talk about political ideology there is an almost ubiquitous temptation to conceptualize it along a single spectrum. Jacobins versus monarchists, Right versus left, Democrats versus Republicans or even Progressives versus Moderates. …

And no, there’s no link there. — Every now and then, when I’m feeling nostalgic for 2016, I get into an internet argument with someone who will — before the argument is over and without any evidence for it — call me some variation on “stupid,” “ignorant,” “uneducated,” or “dumb.” I mean … it’s fine. We’re fine…

And other aspirational poetry — I haven’t written here in a long time. Part of it is because I put my money where my mouth is and have been volunteering and working in whatever capacity I can to make the world a better place. Yay me. Part of it is because I’m working on another…

Disease, Democracy, and Athens — Today I gave a talk for saveancientstudies.org and Digital Hammurabi on the Plague of Athens. It was a great deal of fun to properly research outside of my actual field. During the talk interest was expressed in anything else I’ve written (yikes) and really the best place to route people…

A review of the latest Mortal Kombat movie. — Spoiler Warning for Mortal Kombat 2021, but guys, seriously. Seriously. I knew I needed this in my life since I saw the trailer in which Sub-Zero stabs a dude with a blood icicle. And this isn’t the first time I saw a Mortal Kombat trailer and was like, “This is…

Meanwhile, in the land of the Conspiratorial … — Some people inject hardcore drugs, others throw themselves out of planes, but I like to read the latest crazy from the Q conspiracists. And I do regret calling them “crazy,” because crazy implies they can and should be helped. I don’t know that I believe the Q conspiracists deserve anything…