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The Dragon

This is the first of four weekly blog posts about diagnoses that have completely changed my life since the pandemic started. Let's get the gravest one out of the way first. Until recently, I never appreciated how essential the future was to your mental health....

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Current Discussions

A Murder of Crow's

I appreciate the thoughtful answer, Lori. We really did see quite a few movies back then. Plenty of happy memories. Go »

I'm a Jew, a Lonely Jew... in America

What happened on October 7, 2023 was an invasion of Israel by Hamas that killed 1200 people and wounded 3400 more, and in particularly gruesome ways involving decapitation, rape, arson, and door-to-door murder sprees. Go »

Goo Game Rule Tweaks

When the goo game went monthly, I said that I was going to stop praising individual winners because there would just be too many of them and I didn't want the message to get repetitive. Go »

Football 2024

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Missing the Point

Maybe it's just my hangup about amputation—it's disturbing in the body-horror sense, it's not funny, and its weirdly high frequency of occurrence in Futurama contributed to my abandoning that series—but I could never do that, not for Olympic gold nor any other dream having to do with personal pride or achievement. Go »

Biden Bows Out

Yeah, that last bit is what it comes down to for me: Even if Biden could still defeat Trump as he claimed, the idea of him serving as president through January 2029 is very hard to believe. Go »