Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

People saw a bandwagon passing & hopped on.

I’ve had people asking how they can help writers picketing in the heat in NYC and finally I have a good answer! The strike captains rely on donations to help buy supplies, food, and water for the picket line. (Donation is through WGA captain Steph De Luca’s Venmo).

Intellectual Dark Web, I think.

For people who whinge about not enough women wanting to have sex with them straight men sure do find as many reason as they can to call us whores.

Many want women to look like they’re wearing all that but that want us to look that way naturally. As if that were possible.

The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks, a Washington Post analysis found. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/

It’s terrifying watching our government selling off our NHS. We have all this too look forward to.

I once saw a guy tweet Bernice King to explain what her father “actually meant”…

It’s the “sexy for me” that tells us what the rest of the post will be like. Didn’t even occur to him that she might just want to enjoy herself.