You are not the only person in your movement / political party / other political/politicized group.
Thoughts on Dylan’s Nobel
What is the point of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
When History Has Its Eyes On You: Addressing Criticisms of HAMILTON
I held out a whole year before finally succumbing to the Hamilton bug, but succumb I did.
On the Face Of It: The Design of Money
The fact that pieces of paper have power isn't what bothers me about money. I can understand pieces of paper having power; a lot of power resides in language, and paper is a common vessel for language (not to mention art, though the two are not, I think, unrelated, especially in this context). But U.S. bills are just weird.
A Heap of Thoughts on the “Mainstream”
The following thoughts were inspired by someone (hereafter Person) saying that “mainstream rap” was of drastically decreased quality these days.
The Custom Reality Network
Facebook has been in the news lately for being generally terrible in every way. Which is great. But what no one seems to be talking about is how Facebook has destroyed the space-time continuum.
Certain of Eventual Failure 