In 2018 I began keeping a log of fucked up news stories in an effort to avoid becoming accustomed to how fucked up everything is. This is the log for March. You may also be interested in the log for February or the log for April. March 1 Trump announces plans for…

In 2018 I began keeping a log of fucked up news stories in an effort to avoid becoming accustomed to how fucked up everything is. This is the log for February. You may also be interested in the log for January or the log for March. February 1 The Trump administration wants…

In 2018 I began keeping a log of fucked up news stories in an effort to avoid becoming accustomed to how fucked up everything is. This is the log for January. You may also be interested in the log for February. January 2 Trump taunts Kim Jong-un on Twitter, bragging that “I…

Cloudflare sees itself as a critical component of the Internet’s infrastructure. They handle “around 10% of all Internet requests” — a number they cite to demonstrate that they have what they feel is a grave responsibility to protect free speech online. “The size and scale of the attacks that can…

People who don’t have a particular skill tend to think of those who do have that skill as “knowing how” to do that thing. To a non-programmer, a programmer is a person who “knows how” to write software. A doctor is a person who “knows how” to diagnose and treat…

Good news! The Republican healthcare plan will reduce the federal deficit by $337 billion over ten years. Bad news: 24 million people will lose their health insurance. Is it worth it? To help you decide, here are a few other ways to look at those numbers: Every time Trump spends a weekend at Mar-a-Lago, it costs 237 people. Providing security for Trump Tower costs 36 people per day. Eric Trump’s trip to Uruguay in January on behalf of the Trump Organization cost 7 people.

In September of 2015, Felicity and I flew to Iceland, met up with my brother Rusty and sister-in-law Laila, and spent two weeks circumnavigating the country in an RV on the famous Ring Road. It was an experience I’ll never forget. Each day we made our way gradually counterclockwise around…

Here are some things Trump supporters have said to me about Donald Trump in recent weeks: “I’ve never liked him, and voted against him. He isn’t a conservative, and is one of the worst choices the Republican party could have made.” “I don’t know much about Trump, and what I…

I was raised a Christian. Church every Sunday morning, sometimes again Sunday and Wednesday evenings. Prayers before every meal thanking God for the food we were about to eat and asking him to bless those who had less to eat than we did. …