Starting today, I’m going to do a week-or-so long experiment of eating only food. If you’re not already familiar with Michael Pollan, you might wonder what I mean by eating only food. What else would one eat? Let me explain.
The Western Diet
While Americans may not think of themselves as having a specific cuisine, there are [...]
It’s popular to create sensational news items expressing shock and titillation at the latest “craze” involving teenagers and sex. Auto-erotic asphyxiation gets revolving press. There was that big story about the sex club involving points for certain actions, which I can’t find a link for right now. “Hooking up” has been a popular story lately, [...]
I read a line in a book recently where a character was reminding himself not to compare his insides to other people’s outsides. This is certainly an error that is common. It is only possible for us to know the absolute intimacy of our own insides, yet we often compare ourselves to others, when our [...]
What we say matters. Say what you mean and mean what you say!
On the schedule for today - “Have To”
How often do you say that you “have to” do something? You have to go to work. You have to pay the bills. You have to call your mother. You have to clean the house. We [...]
Over the last two days, I started and finished reading Derrick Jensen’s Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance. I wrote previously about reading Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization, and now I’m back for more.
Prior to picking up either of these books, I was already convinced. Jensen says “Civilization is not and can never be sustainable…” and [...]
