Because I am a Pedantic Nerd

Ragnarök is not interchangeable with Armageddon.  First of all, not everyone is destroyed.  Certainly not all the gods, and in some versions, a man and a woman are hidden in a tree, so even we survive.  And second, though the earth is destroyed, true to the cyclical nature of the story, it is also made [...]

An Open Letter to the Metro Police

Dear Nashville Metro Police Department,
I will not be sending you this letter because I am afraid of the police.  But, if I were to send it, I would be sending it because of the comments of Metro police Captain Jason Reinbold, who oversees your training division, in this news article here.
Since you all are, like [...]

I Know I Don’t Have to Tell You Who To Vote For

Go here.  Vote for the dude inadvertently on our team.

Like a Coat You Somehow Slip On Without Noticing

My working theory is that we are shaped and motivated by narrative, that we are who we are in great part because of the stories we tell about who we are and how we understand ourselves in relation to other people through the stories they tell about themselves and also about us.
We can learn new [...]