PEREGRINE PULP

Folks are talking about wildfires. They’re just talking about them because they’re visible at this moment. When Ontario or Quebec burn it gets noticed. Our friends to the south are certainly noticing, too. The outrage at forest fire smoke drifting over the border, and the responses to that outrage, has been quite amusing. Talk of climate change. Talk of climate change denial. Comparison of this year’s burns to other years. All the usual on those fronts. With that though, peop

I’m a big fan of Occam’s and Hanlon’s razors. And I think of them as linked. The simplest explanations are preferable to and often more likely than highly complex ones and ignorance or incompetence tend to be far more common and probable an explanation than malice. Besides these tending to offer the best or most likely explanations, thinking otherwise is probably just not going to do your mental health any good while also failing to get you anywhere. You, a mere mortal, are j

The comedy is unrelenting. Everyone’s favourite politician, Donald J. Trump, halfway through is final term, delivered a speech to the public about all the vulnerabilities associated with state and federal elections as identified by the country’s intelligence community. Deviating from prior pronouncements, the President did not explicitly say that his own or any other elections had been affected or even so much as one vote altered. Instead, he made public formerly classified U

Cullo: There was a symphony in the park the other day. Mattis: Nice. It’s an annual thing, right? Cullo: Yeah. Oh, and we saw a Sandhill crane poking about near the lake. Mattis: Nice. The only thing I know about Sandhill cranes is that they’re considered the tastiest bird; "ribeye of the sky," they say. Hunters constantly talk about how criminal it is that they can’t be hunted. Cullo: Same day I saw a guy in a scooter with a gun. Mattis: That's funny. Probably better t

A popular debater, streamer, and social media personality was recently posting about the ongoing war in Ukraine. Specifically they were concerned with the discussion of Nazis making up some portion of the force the West is backing against Russia. The argument was that it was deeply silly and unethical even to purity test the armed forces of a nation who had been invaded and had its territory stolen by a vastly larger neighbouring nation. Though emotionally compelling, I only