A Short Synthesis — This is a short piece that I may revisit later, but want to get my thoughts down while they’re fresh in my mind. After reading Caitlin Johnstone’s recent piece, “When Will Foreign Leaders Start Asking To Speak To America’s REAL Government?,” I was struck by a couple of phrases. “Your…

Let’s talk about localization. To some (read:dumb) people, it’s the greatest sin in the world. It’s not. Localization isn’t a problem. The problem is the target of localization. More accurately, the assumed target. To localize something is to translate and interpret it for a particular audience. Problems arise in identifying…

A Few Things Stated by Robert Anton Wilson — I’d like to share some quotations by Robert Anton Wilson. For now I’ll leave you to think on them without commentary. At some point in the future I may come back to share my ruminations on them. They are always worth considering, but especially at times of tension. “Belief is…

Once in a while you hear about attempts to make a better calendar, but what about making a worse one? Here are a few ideas that crossed my mind specifically for re-configuring the months, leaving all other variables as is: July is now one hundred and one days long, to…

When the violence of the White Empire turns inwards on itself, they call it World War. When the violence of the White Empire is carried out against the rest of the world, they call it *background noise*. When the violence of the White Empire turns inwards on itself, they call…

For a while now a bunch of people have been beating the drums of war, whether against ＲＵＳＳＩＡ or ＣＨＩＮＡ or whoever else they think should face the wrath of their displeasure. These people are a bunch of gutless weenies. They sit at their computers, in front of their television…

Hint: It’s The Theft of Surplus Labor — Dr. Richard Wolff has an excellent lecture that he’s given numerous times that very clearly lays out several aspects of how capitalist production works, and he views it through a Marxist lens. …

Translation kerfuffles show up in the Anime Discourse™ like clockwork, or a bad rash. Though the details change, a few core items remain the same each and every time. One of these is a conflation between ability to translate and authority to translate. What do I mean by that? …

Back in 2013 when Free! was announced, a bunch of doofuses got upset about it. That inspired me to write this parody of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General,” from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. I’ve finally taken the time to post it here…