I accidentally deleted my first round of notes for this parashah, so it took a bit for me to get back on the horse, so to speak. I’m already familiar with the Great Deluge, having picked it up through Sunday School and Rugrats, but they glossed over the important details, like the cause and the […]
I’m familiar, in general terms, with the early parts of Genesis, having had some Sunday schooling as a child. That was, of course, a Christian interpretation, and so I expect to encounter differences. Anyway, this is the first of hopefully 54 articles following my reading of the Torah. For reference, I will be referring to […]
A Biden presidency will be no better than a Trump presidency, and it will in fact do irreparable harm to the Democratic Party independently of the so-called ‘Bernie Bros’ deciding to take their ball and go home. Current Affairs did an excellent article hitting the salient points, but I’m going to enumerate them here (and […]
In 1986, the first draft of the Free Software Definition was published, and included three freedoms; a fourth, freedom 0, was added in 1996, and together they read as follows: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it […]
Before I talk about Senator Warren, I have some things to say: I’m not Native; I’ve never been a part of any Native community and I had no exposure to any, growing up. Because of that, I refuse to identify as Native or to wear Native regalia. I do have a Native ancestor possibly as […]
