demolishing straw men and engaging in a thought experiment of all the topics of american debate, nothing brings out the truly bad takes and outlandishly awful framings quite like the second amendment. but even among these endlessly inept interpretations and outlandish straw men, one may find some real insight because as is so often the […]
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lifesaving medical procedures by el gato malo
repurposing practices from the past and adopting new cutting edge therapy (a possibly less than serious allegory. or maybe…) antonio moniz, inventor of the lobotomy, won the nobel prize in medicine for this breakthrough in treating everything from mental health issues to nervous indigestion. i mean, sure, there were a few side-effects, especially with the […]
the bonnie and clyde of bioethics by el gato malo
christine grady and tony fauci are quite the pair a friendly reminder: for 12 years, fauci’s wife has been the head of clinical bioethics at the NIH. absolutely no one in government has seen any undue risk or conflict of interest here. to my knowledge, no one in power has even taken a look at […]
blaming the victim by el gato malo
an all too typical pattern for abusersthe abusive spouse beats his partner senseless then blames her. “why do you make me do this to you!?!” it’s a pathology so common, it’s a trope. and yet it’s one people fall for. over and over. alienate them and tell them that this is their fault and that […]
back to the future: recovering from the aggrievement age by el gato malo
once upon a time our differences were fun and funny. reclaiming this state of the world and seeking commonality is how we restore our civilization.this may come as a shock to younger readers, but there was a time when jokes about race and gender and sexuality were considered funny. you could make them in public. […]
trading liberty for safety by el gato malo
the domestication of man to the yoke of legal plunder the gravest danger of trading liberty for safety is not that you will get neither. you will forget what freedom is and become unable to even imagine self sufficiency instead of permission. endless parades of hobgoblins and night terrors will be enacted for your consumption […]