PEREGRINE PULP

EVERY EXPERT:  Putin just has nothing to gain from launching a war with Ukraine. He would never do it. ME:  I don’t know about that. ALL...

I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...

March 2014: Mme Dienne LaCarétt, mother of post-neo-colonial orthonarcotics, looked up and down, high and low, walking the length of the long, long rows of tall, tall shelves. And she walked this way back, scouring each spiny wall like a hungry tapir homing in on rotting fruit obscured by fallen leaves. Eventually a librarian noticed, approached, and asked “May I help you find what you’re looking for?” “Nope” said Dienne, crisp and sure, as she walked along. “Have you used th

According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...

I was told to go read something said to be a newly published and “damning UN report about Israeli war crimes and ‘extermination’ via its war on Gaza's hospitals.” The document was a Report of Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel . It is the third such report to the UN General Assembly by this group and covers the period from October 7th, 2023 to August of 2024. The report states at the outs

I haven’t had a GP since 1998. I was recently given the opportunity to apply for a rare patient spot at a local health centre. Though I have no medical concerns, I was glad to finally have someone I could see should something come up. And then I received the patient intake application form. It’s hard to describe the lunacy that is this form. As you read the following, please appreciate that this is the intake form for a health centre populated by four doctors and a team of nu