Yet More New Classes Uploaded

 Head over to my Patreon for some lessons on how to read anything at all. Includes how to understand propaganda. 

Bookplate Offer Still Stands!

 If you haven't heard, I'll send you  signed bookplate if you can email me with proof of purchase of Hell. I've sent out 300 so far! 

tbm2@rice.edu is the address. 

More Classes are Up on My Patreon

 Just go here and take a look! 

More Music from me and Andrew Melchior

 It's the B side to "Come Fast from the Dark." 

"I Can't Believe We're Having This Conversation Again"

 

I Was on This BBC Radio 4 Show and Loved It

 ...a show about crisis...we recorded it in London  yesterday. Everyone got good stuff out I think. 

A Major, MAJOR Aspect of Trump's Horror

 "while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty."

Nate White

Why I Boycotted the New York Times or, How It Turned into a Giant Wordle Whose Solution is "Acquiesce"

 I don't buy your product any more New York Times, and a long quotation from a “think” piece called “How a Naked Man on a Tropical Island Created Our Current Political Insanity” vindicated my decision.

It's PART of the insanity you see, insanity itself being a euphemism for obscene violence.

You see, oh Grey Lady, the way it suckered me by hinting it was going to talk about colonialism and race--but never does...

When actual clothed people FROM an island are being assaulted OUTSIDE the precious tv (tellingly and menacingly absent from the title)...

While a white (because never colored in) man acting like Crusoe “clearly understands how to operate” the never mentioned stochastic terrorism...

MAKES ME WANT TO PUKE.

And that’s not all! This “clearly understands how to operate” thing is a great instance of sanewashing, the utter menace of a deranged clown presented as competence.

All this does, ALL it does, is glamorize how a fascist nihilist dominates us by saturating the news cycle. It does it for him. Without calling it out.

Then another Times piece will sanewash the violent nonsense.

And so this is why I don't buy your product any more.

You are an acquiescence machine, reams of cleverly manicured, deliciously diverting prose designed to drown the screams like the Beethoven on the loudspeakers at the camp I'm sure I can't even mention here. Congrats!