Burn All the Schools

Introduction: H.L. Mencken once suggested a shrewd educational reform that has somehow not caught on. He said that there was nothing wrong with our current education establishment that could not be fixed by burning all the schools, and hanging all the teachers. Now some might want to dismiss this as an extreme measure, but visionaries …

No Vembers in November

No Nuance November There was another post about the upcoming “No Holds November.” Just wanted to drop a quick note saying I’m looking forward to it. The upcoming month reminds of another thing you said, trying to explain why you thought people liked to read your blog: “I will state it simply first, and then …

Three Approaches to Sexuality

Introduction: One of the very useful set of categories that I learned from the reconstructionists back in the day was the distinction to be made between the three different kinds of religion. There is power religion, there is escape religion, and there is dominion religion. To expand slightly, there is the way of taking a …