amor mundi

After a generation of Reagan Republican neo-feudalist Randroidal asshole "Idea Guys" dismantled the New Deal and Great Society fo...

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

via BBC : Washington has become the first state in the US to legalise human composting. Under the new law, people there can now choose to...

Rhetoric 10: The Rhetoric of Argument  "What Is Compelling? Argument, Reconciliation, Obligation" Summer 2019, Session A, 2...

With each passing year the process of "onboarding" to teach my summer intensive at Berkeley has required more and more and more st...

I have always found Frank Herbert's rather incidental observation of the Bene Gesserit practice of planting the dead beneath fruit trees...

An Amor Mundi Tax Day tradition: One  Hostility to taxes is commonplace among self-styled anarchists, as well as for right-wing ...

Reading Paul Magrs's Phoenix Court quartet as I fall deeper down this literally lifesaving Whovian fanhole that has sustained me and re...

After seventeen years together, Eric and I got married this Wednesday afternoon at the Alameda County Clerk Recorder's Office. I still ...

In years past, I followed the usual custom of offering up in the first days of the new year a list of posts from the prior year that had ei...

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by...

The Guardian : Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988, according to...

This is a great idea, to which I will append the two added notions that branches of the public bank should be located, among other places, ...

After brunch at our usual greasy spoon on Piedmont Avenue and then a walk to the Morcome Amphitheater of Roses (one of my favorite places o...

Had to order new trousers for work for the fourth time in less than a year -- the first purchase, last February, replaced a 42-inch waist p...

My mood, captured in a snippet from private correspondence: The passage of time is very strange. It happened Wednesday and yet here it is W...

Our beloved cat Sarah died yesterday in my lap, her little face cradled in my hand. She was never a large cat, even when she fluffed out fo...

The lie of the tech sector is that it is up to much of anything new at all. "Technology" discourse has always mostly been the re...