Life

The invading Nazis in WWII found out the hard way, now its Russia’s turn: Summer uniforms are useless against snow — Ninja-like, it creeps up on them shortly after the sun sets beyond the tops of the snow-covered trees turning the expansive horizon into an orange-topped table. Feeling it more deeply than they did during the day, the civilians-turned-soldiers jump into the quickly-dug holes in the hard earth.

“The whole giving birth process looks and feels like you’re being murdered” — I love my ball of poo wrapped in a sleeping bag. Since her birth on 11/11/22 my entire life has changed. Before I had a kid randoms on the internet tried to force their opinions on me. They’d say… “Overpopulation is a problem, dontcha know.” “Only selfish people have kids.” …

Don’t be that person. — It’s not me. It’s them. I’m sure of it. They are experts at finding ways to be annoying. It all comes back to consideration — using shared spaces in a non-prickish way, making life a bit easier for everyone. These things piss me off on a regular basis. The gym population problems Take a…

Let me debunk this myth with data and facts — not emotion, outrage and clickbait — Elon Musk is either your man crush or your worst nightmare. As soon as he took over Twitter it became clear his ownership of the little birdy app would divide people. I sit in the middle. I admire him for what he’s done with SpaceX and Tesla. Yet I dislike…

It only took a couple of weeks — A month ago I wrote about a woman Anastasia (Nastya), a friend of my wife in St. Petersburg, who was so proudly preparing her husband for the front. Nastya is 37 and her husband is 38. Their two children are 3 and 5. It only took a week or so…

Want my attendance? Read this. Hello, (person or organization) that would like to see me personally appear at (insert event). Since a variety of officials have repeatedly said that it’s up to each of us to assess our own Covid risks, I’ve invested some time in doing exactly that. I’m going to briefly walk you…

And What America’s Teaching the World About Breaking the Laws of History — We live in strange and perilous times. As if climate change and mass extinction weren’t enough, they’re accompanied by…the return of fascism to the global stage. Wave after wave of it pulses across the world, like civilization itself having a heart attack. What’s behind it? Take a hard look at…