One of the silliest things I’ve seen in a long time—the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. These are folks who think the human race should stop procreating until we die out and the biosphere can recover. There was a community here in Enfield that practiced a small-scale version of the VHEMT. They were called the Shakers….
Category: this monkey house.
iconic photography.
If none of these pictures get even a single tear out of you, it’s possible that you’re human only by biological designation.
on straight white male privilege.
Over on his blog, John Scalzi kicked loose a bit of a shitstorm a few days ago by posting an essay on Straight White Male Privilege. You should go over there and read the whole thing because Scalzi’s a great writer who makes cogent points, but the Cliff Notes version of it is that “Straight…