Category: Language

Friday Thoughts: Disagreement vs. Misinformation

I know I’m likely preaching to the choir here, but I wanted to take a few […]

A-Fisking We Will Go!

Oh, look – it’s another stupid article purporting to be journalism. That means I’m gonna do […]

The Meaning of Words

Words have meaning. That meaning can change either over time or by deliberate interference in the […]

Governments, People, and Labels

It’s become fashionable, and is even seen as moral, to label people who use “Chinese virus” […]

Projection

The other day, I started a blog post about rhetoric that wound up all rambly and […]

Censorship

Yes, Twitter is censoring the President of the United States. Yes, Apple, Google, and Amazon are […]

Total Control

Political philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the term “totalitarian” to denote those political systems which were created […]