Category: Nonfiction
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If I Had a Billion DollarsCongratulations! You are now one of the proud, few billionaires in the world. I dunno how you did it, maybe you started a tech company, maybe you inherited your wealth from dear, old dad, maybe you were just super lucky and won the lottery. Whatever happened, you now have a billion dollars. That's $1,000,000,000.00 in…
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An Open Love LetterHere's to you, you crazy few, you proud and pure, stubborn and stalwart few. Here's to how you go against the grain, stand up for what you believe in against all adversity, and stick to what you know is right, no matter what. I'm jealous of you, and I raise my glass to you. So…
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A Quick Guide to Critical Thinking OR How to Spot BullshitI recently had a couple of conversations that greatly disturbed me. One was with my former illustrator, Elaine Tipping, who mentioned that they'd never been formally taught qualitative reasoning, or the scientific method, and the other with my girlfriend, who seemed both impressed and surprised by the fact that I research and link to various…
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VOTE GODDAMN IT!I'd like to talk to my more conservative/centrist friends. Namely: what does it mean to be a conservative and specifically a Republican. I've been doing a bit of hunting and fact gathering, as well as searching my memory for the good ole fashion values my school system taught while I was growing up, and I…
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Pick Your Side"You're either with US or against US," has been a popular phrase for longer than most of us care to remember. And why not? It's short, catchy, and readily fools you into thinking the speaker has completely summed up the issues at hand. I first encountered the above variant of the phrase (with the word…
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I Hate MonopolyMonopoly is a terrible game. I know this opinion is becoming much more popular of late, but I think it bears repeating: Monopoly is a terrible game. Yet for some reason, I played an absurd amount of Monopoly when I was a kid, in after school clubs (glorified daycare), at friends' houses, with any family…