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• Jimmy McNulty is the Villain of The Wire
• Is Anti-Trans Bigotry Secretly Misandry?
• We Have to Show Strength

Social Criticism

• Everything is Racist! Everything is Cool When You’re Part of a Racially-Stratified Class Hierarchy!
• The Death of Millions as Farce
• Back In My Day: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Child Abuse
• Euphoria: The Profane Pleasure
• Afghanistan: The Pointless War
• Against Freedom
• Culture and the Death of Racism
• Pipelines and Harm Reduction
• Vaccine Privilege
• The Dangers of the Different
• Protesting and Looting
• False Tribalism
• An Invocation Against Beginnings: Or, Fuck Your New Year’s Resolution
• Abolish the Police
• Bootstraps
• Wage Slavery
• Why Bother With Drug Counselling?
• The Moral Failings of Charity
• Addiction, Consumerism, and Human Connection
• N.I.M.B.Y.
• What the shit is “Systemic Injustice?”
• Social Constructions
• The Immoral Disease
• What Is Postmodernism?
• Union Without Conformity
• Race Vs. Ethnicity
• Why Blame the Rich
• The Necessity of Institutions
• Selfless Selfishness
• The Mistaken Allure of Competitive Ideology
• Dissent is the Sincerest Form of Patriotism
• Cult of Victimhood
• Anti-Intellectualism
• What Is Justice?
• Being Pro-Eugenics is more morally justifiable than being Anti-Refugee
• What Are They Selling You?
• The Punishment Due
• Anti-Authoritarianism
• Don’t Be An Ally
• The Success of Malcolm: The Death of a Dream
• Reverse-Discrimination
• The Elimination of Injustice is a Red Herring
• White Films in a Diverse Culture
• Rehabilitation or Death
• Why do we lie to children about Santa Claus?
• Netflix and Chill
• The Demerits of Imposed Structure
• Copyright
• I Am Not A Good Person
• All your arguments against Rachel Dolezal are wrong.
• Nobody loves you when you’re broken
• Distractions
• The End of the World
• The Negative Side of Selfishness: Because we all loved it so much before
• Being Nice is Bullshit
• Let’s just ban all the jobs. Who gives a shit?
• Making a Killing: The Enabling of Profits and Death
• Empathy: An Emotion Built on Lies
• Why Label Yourself
• The Relativity of Misery
• Mustaches are not worthy of charity
• Why offensive jokes are stupid, and you’re stupid for making them

Social Media

• Quasi-Defense of the Social Being: Control of the Discourse
• Critique of the Social Being: The Medium is the Message
• Critique of the Social Being: The Digital Panopticon
• Quasi-Defense of the Social Being: Free Speech and Censorship
• Critique of the Social Being: The Online Crowd
• Critique of the Social Being: The New Opiate of the Masses
• Critique of the Social Being: Contingency of Relationships
• Critique of the Social Being: People as Product
• The Flawed Nature of Social Media Activism

Philosophy

• Virtuous Sacrifice: The Sacrifice for Virtue
• Who am I? Identity and the Search for Meaning
• The Ship of Theseus and the Philosophy of Dementia
• Freedom Isn’t Free
• Objective Morality: The Ballad of Sam Harris
• The Moral Suicide
• The Ethics of Leadership
• Ethical Egoism
• The Trolley Problem
• The Fallacy of Individualism
• Just War
• The Ambiguity of Truth
• Meno’s Paradox and the Ways of Knowing
• Freedom, Morality, and Causality
• Understanding Consent with David Hume’s Is/Ought Problem
• Bourgeois Philosophy
• You’re Doing ‘Happiness’ Wrong
• How many things are there?
• Are we naught but savages?
• Humanity’s Finest
• Meaning in Meaninglessness
• The Necessity of Meaninglessness
• The Conundrum of Identity
• The Nature of Reality
• The Necessity of Philosophy
• Wait… What about ethics?
• Skepticism
• Freedom from Causality
• The Meaning of Life Revisited
• Our Search for Primitivism
• The Power of the Self
• Remember the Spoon; There is no Truth
• The Meaning of Life
• Subjective Morality: It’s all we’ve got
• Do.
• The Fly and Free Will

Academically Researched

• Prohibition and the Legal Alternatives
• The Rise and Fall of Retiring Volunteers
• All That Is Man
• Accelerationism
• The Clarity of the Merciless

Arts and Entertainment

• Jimmy McNulty is the Villain of The Wire
• The Hulk and Gender
• Behind Blue Eyes: Manipulating the Unmet Need
• Batman is the Greatest Supervillain of All Time
• Political Propaganda: The Importance of Storytelling
• Ramy and the Portrayal of Villainy
• Kierkegaard’s Anatomy: Meredith Grey and the Aesthete
• The Good Place: Chidi Anagonye and Colonialism
• I’d Do Anything For Love: The Philosophy Of Meat Loaf
• Why do we cheer for the Phantom?
• Batman v. Superman
• Do or do not. There is no try.
• The Committee
• The Death of Art
• The Sartrean Perspecitve of Here I Go Again
• The Nietzschean perspective of Free Bird

Gender

• Is Anti-Trans Bigotry Secretly Misandry?
• We Have to Show Strength
• Feminism is Existentialism
• 7 SJW Movies That Aren’t As Feminist As You Think
• LGBT: The ‘L’ Stands for ‘Linguistics’
• Is it Misogyny?
• Feminism 101
• Dialogue with a Beta Cuck
• The Disposable Gender
• Feminism As Socialism
• The Patriarchy
• Feminism Isn’t About Equality
• Transgenderism as a Mental Illness
• Feminist Etymology
• Responsible For Violence
• Pornography
• Sluts and Fuckboys
• Are you a feminist?
• Don’t Be Afraid
• A Critique of Popular Feminism
• Intersectional Ideology
• My Privilege
• Men Are Keys; Women Are Locks
• Violence Against Women
• In Defense of Beauty
• Um… maybe Straight/White/Men SHOULD get a month
• The Anatomy of Sexual Autonomy
• What about The Mens?
• Sexy Sexiness and Sex
• Don’t Gender Adjectives. And Don’t Verb Nouns, Either
• A World With Too Much Yang
• Why Straight/White/Men don’t get a month

Politics

• Too Soon? Assholes and the Queen’s Death
• The Myth of the Benevolent Dictator
• What Am Politics?
• Critical Race Theory: The Audible Dog Whistle
• Convoy 2022: Live Free or Truck Hard
• An Unmanaged Economy
• What Do We Do About Thousands of Dead Indigenous Children?
• Does Palestine Have the Right to Defend Itself?
• This Is America
• A Stolen Vaccine
• Is Post-Truth Fake News?
• Right-Wing Identity Politics
• Bernie Sanders and Collective Action
• The Dissolving Farce of American Interventionism
• Canadian Values
• Saudi Arabia: Too Big to Fail
• Taxes And Theft
• Communism And Democracy
• The Horseshoe of Free Speech
• Cultural Marxism
• Political Centrism
• Reducing Alt-Right Radicalization
• Glorious Communism
• Schisms of Solidarity
• The Disparity in Government Accountability
• A Libertarian Justice System
• Freedom From Speech
• Identity Polemics
• The End of Weimar America
• The Fatal Flaw of the Westphalian System
• American Anarchy
• Donald Trump: Man of the People
• By Any Means Necessary
• Fuck Harper
• You guys know Stephen Harper is basically Donald Trump, right?
• Everybody Loves Taxes!
• Capitalism!? More like… CRAPitalism!! Am I rite, fellas?
• Freedom to Hate
• The Sexiest Form of Activism
• Terrorism? Really?
• Turns out Socialism is pretty neat.
• Liberals! Psh!
• How do you solve a problem like a crippled nation?
• Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman

Religion

• God and Kant
• Religious Rejection and Power
• The Problem of Evil
• A Couple More Proofs of God
• Negative Theology is the Best Theology
• The Flimsiness of God’s Morality
• Muslims: Why Do They Hate Us?
• Atheism
• My Brush with the Mormons
• Karma is a bitch
• In Defense of Organized Religion
• The Necessity of Religion
• Another proof of God
• Where are the new religions?
• Proof of God
• Sexuality and Spirituality… Sexituality?
• The God-Shaped Hole
• Critique of Pure Religion
• We’re all boned either way
• Why Atheists are not religious, but do their damnedest to mimic the worst of religious behaviours
• The Secular World’s Scapegoat

Science

• Do we really need to care about Flat Earthers?
• If A Tree Falls In The Woods
• The Monty Hall Problem
• The Mathematical Gods
• Science and Values
• I Don’t Believe in Science
• I Fucking Hate Science

Satire

• In Historic Nomination, Biden Appoints Candace Owens As Vice Presidential Candidate
• 8 Cute Animal Pics But This Time With Conservative Values
• Alt-Right Comes Out With Statement, ‘James Fields Jr. Just Trolling’
• 8 Cute Animal Pics You Wouldn’t See Unless You Searched “Cute Animal Pictures” On Google
• HealthBC Now Offering New ‘Human Connection’ Drug For Seniors
• Conservative Government Reacts to Influx of Buddhist Terrorism
• The Top 5 Habits of Miserable People
• Understanding the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre with the help of online dating
• ISIS Retaliates to Pork-Tipped Bullets
• Why is Bidet Immoral
• Why all the other ocean creatures don’t get a week.
• 11 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Discovering Non-Existence of Santa Claus
• The Moral Ramifications of Zombie Murder
• Why Gardeners are Unnatural Capitalists

Poetry and Narrative

• Tourism: The Ethics of Looking
• Prison Heroics
• The Park Bench
• For You
• Broken Headphones
• Ode to the Imperfect Memory
• The Holiday

Important Days

• New Year Wisdom 2023
• New Year Wisdom 2022
• May Day: The International Workers’ Day
• New Year Wisdom 2021
• New Year Wisdom 2020
• New Year Wisdom 2019
• Valentine
• New Year Wisdom 2018
• Canada is not 150 years old
• New Year Wisdom 2017
• Be Proud
• New Year Wisdom 2016
• Remembrance Day
• New Year Wisdom 2015
• New Year Wisdom 2014