It's still possible that it's nothing but a new grift.
Dec 21, 2025
Happy Solstice, Everybody
December 21 @ 8:03 am
The season of the dark
sits on us like the weight
of love gone wrong.
And just as we begin
to believe the light has died forever
the sun begins to stay a little longer.
Dec 20, 2025
Say What?
Assuming Jesus was born of a virgin, and since god has no gender, if we ever do find the Christ's remains, we'll be able to confirm that "the perfect man" had no Y chromosome.
What do you supposed happens when 78 million American Evangelicals hear that their lord and savior was trans, or intersex? Or - A WOMAN !?!
Love 'Em Up
Try to meet your peeps where they are
Try to see them for what they are,
and try to love them for who they are
Dec 19, 2025
Overheard
When Trump is finally dead and gone, he won't be going to heaven, but about 10,000 NDAs will be freed up, and we'll really start to learn just what a truly miserable, shitty human being he was.
A Chat With ChatGPT
Why are political conflicts so stressful for many people?
Political conflicts are stressful for many people because they press on some of the deepest psychological and social fault lines humans have. A few interlocking reasons stand out:
1. Politics threatens identity, not just opinions.
For many people, political views are tied to core values—fairness, freedom, safety, dignity, belonging. When those views are challenged, it can feel less like a debate about policy and more like an attack on who they are or what kind of person they are. That triggers defensive emotions similar to those provoked by personal insults.
2. They activate tribal instincts.
Humans evolved to survive in groups. Political conflict often maps neatly onto “us vs. them” categories, activating ancient threat-detection systems. Once someone is perceived as part of an opposing tribe, the brain shifts toward vigilance, anger, and readiness to fight—literally stress responses, not calm reasoning.
3. The stakes feel existential.
Politics governs issues like safety, rights, livelihoods, and the future of one’s children. Even if the actual risk is abstract or long-term, the perceived stakes are high. The nervous system doesn’t distinguish well between an immediate physical threat and a symbolic one that feels just as consequential.
4. Moral emotions run hot.
Political disagreements often involve moral judgments—who deserves help, who is responsible for harm, what is just. Moral emotions (outrage, disgust, righteous anger) are especially intense because they evolved to enforce social norms. Once morality enters the room, compromise can feel like betrayal.
5. Lack of control and ambiguity.
People feel stress when outcomes matter but are largely outside their control. Most individuals have very little direct influence over political outcomes, yet are constantly exposed to alarming narratives about what might happen. That mismatch—high importance, low agency—is a classic recipe for anxiety.
6. Social risk is real.
Political conflict can cost friendships, family harmony, professional standing, or social belonging. Even anticipating conflict raises stress levels, because humans are exquisitely sensitive to social rejection. The fear isn’t imaginary; people really do get ostracized over politics.
7. Modern media amplifies everything.
News and social platforms reward outrage, simplify complex issues into moral binaries, and keep conflicts constantly visible. The result is chronic activation of the stress response with little opportunity for resolution or rest.
8. Compassion fatigue and moral injury.
For people who care deeply, repeated exposure to suffering, injustice, or perceived cruelty—especially when paired with powerlessness—can lead to emotional exhaustion or a sense that the world violates one’s moral expectations. That’s profoundly stressful.
In short, political conflicts are stressful because they blur boundaries between ideas and identity, disagreement and threat, concern and helplessness. They recruit the brain’s survival machinery for problems that rarely have clean, immediate solutions.
Dec 18, 2025
Overheard
I'm almost 73 years old. I've lived thru
- The Cuban missile crisis
- The assassination of JFK
- The Watts riots
- The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi in 1964
- Church bombings that killed little girls
- Vietnam
- The assassinations of RFK and MLK
- The gut-wrenching turmoil of 1968
- Stagflation
- The first oil crisis
- Watergate
- The second oil crisis
- The Iran hostage crisis
- Trickle down and union busting
- Iran-Contra
- The Challenger
- The crack epidemic
- The Dot Com crash
- 9/11
- The Mortgage crash and Great Recession
- The opiate epidemic
- COVID-19
- and and and
I've never seen anything as stupidly vile and depressing and disgusting as this current edition of the Trump shitshow.
Fake lord deliver us from this madness.
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