With the current increase in litigation over the use of licensed Creative Commons material on public sites without proper citation, I thought it wise to state my monetization status for this blog. For those who don't read sidebar pages, I decided to bring this notice front-and-center on the main feed. If you like my writing … Continue reading A Measure of Self-Protection

AUTHOR'S NOTE: The "curmudgeon" has entered the building! "Snowflakes" should find the exit A few years ago, not too long after the fateful day when character limits were imposed on messaging by Twitter, I began to observe what seemed like a steep decline in the grammatical proficiency of English-language users. Punctuation appeared to have gone … Continue reading Necessity, Convenience or Just Plain Ignorance?

Lately I've been thinking about the unchecked acceleration of two trends in modern life that speak to the title of this essay: the thoughtless advancement of technology for its own sake, and the equally unthinking embrace of social and cultural directives for their own sake. As a devotee of the ancient mystical arts, I often … Continue reading We Can But Should We?