Number Lines and the Empty Product
The “Empty Product” is the product of all numbers in a group of no numbers at all. To the uninitiated, this sounds like word salad. Mostly because it is: How ca...
Month: August 2021
On the Correlation Between COVID Cases and Deaths
So, content warning: This is about COVID deaths. Someone tweeted about case counts correlated to Rep/Dem voting patterns by county showing that the GOP was lite...
Mirrors, Windows, and Nonbinary Literature
A recent conversation about Jeff Garvin’s “Symptoms of Being Human” reminded me of the literary concept of mirrors and windows. Two of my favorite TikToker...
On Demi Lovato, Cancel Culture, and Fact Checking
So someone asked why Demi Lovato is so controversial and… I can’t tell. I feel like people take every little thing they say and twist it way out of ...
The Sweet Tooth of Marine City
1 The five and dime where my parents bought my first typewriter is now a candy store that shares its name with a comic book series about the apocalypse, and tha...
Learning to Breathe: Pronouns
I have come to dislike pronouns. That’s not quite true. I like the concept of pronouns. I was well inducted into the School of Rufus Xavier Sarsaparil...
Pronouns
I don’t want pronouns that tell you I’m nonbinary. I want pronouns that tell you I’m a person. I want pronouns that don’t remind me of m...
On “transgendered” (offensive word)
I was watching a Jammidodger video this morning and had a realization that another* problem with the term “transgendered men” (and “… wo...
Off-Key Karaoke
One of comedian Al Franken’s more enduring characters is Stuart Smalley, an awkward man who wears pastel and stares into a mirror saying, “I’m...