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Slavery Reparations, introduction

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In a series of posts that will follow, I want to examine the notion that black Americans are owed some form of reparations due to the United States’ previous enshrinement of slavery, and to a lesser but more recent extent, mandatory discrimination. Is this idea of reparations just? To help isolate some of the facets [...]

Was This Trip Necessary?

In the same way that I have a hard time mustering up sympathy for some oaf who gets bit when taunting and teasing a angry dog, I cannot feel anything but a cold sense of schadenfreude at my state’s governor’s injuries, sustained en route to that most important of Executive functions, a bull session between [...]

Vaccines, or “What’s a Prisoner to Do?”

(More slapdash posting. As I may have mentioned, I’m starting a new business, and I’m in the middle of a three month crunch time.) As a homeschooler, I’m in contact with — hell, I’d even say friends with — some pretty fringe folks. Among these many sub-populations are vaccine avoiders, those who feel that the [...]