SENSE US - THE LONG FORM
Thank you for participating in the 2026 Census (and multiple choice citizenship test). The information you provide is not used to produce statistics. As such, nothing here can help communities, businesses, and governments plan services, develop programs, and make informed decisions about employment, schools, public transportation, hospitals or any other damn thing. Your answers are inherently confidential. And you can be sure Peregrine Pulp makes no use of existing sources of
May 916 min read
YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN
WHAT ARE WE SEEING? I’m watching doctors, nurses, and epidemiologists, as well as science communicators and folks in the news business, offer flatly wrong, wildly misleading, or just seriously outdated information about hantavirus and the outbreak cluster they are struggling to contain. This is really the vast majority of all the medical professionals I can find, particularly those invited on the news. So many, certainly all serious professionals responding seriously, are not
May 74 min read
THE MODERN NORSE SAGA or REFUSING TO ADMIT WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW
When attempting to write about the city of Victoria I couldn’t help but delve into the history of the place. Doing so inevitably resulted in diving into the details about who arrived here and from where they came, something far more messy and complicated than you might imagine. Then, far enough down the road into discussion of ships from Spain and Russia (with crews from Asia, Oceana, the Americas, and Africa) plying the west coast of North America, it seemed worth mentioning
May 412 min read
