PEREGRINE PULP

OKAY I’m a fan of etymology and semantics and, really, everything to do with language; still, somehow I never gave much thought to the...

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

Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...

This week, authorities have given us things like: “ July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history .” “July isn't even over and it's projected to be the hottest month humanity has ever experienced.” “The North Atlantic just reached its highest temperature in recorded history just two days after the Mediterranean Sea reached its highest temperature in recorded history.” I love this. These folks consistently tell us how passionate they are about precisi

I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...

We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...

Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...

I just read an article titled “Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report.” It’s published on the website of...

David Abram and Robin Wall Kimmerer write of the tremendous power of language to shape perception and, therefore, our relationships and...

READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...

Whenever I'm involved in conversations about intersex- or trans-related issues someone conflates trans with intersex and notes that one...

I'm constantly hearing about archaeologists digging up ruins and collecting artifacts from the ancient Aztec empire. Historians and...

The caterpillar cuts a path of pure devastation through the ecosystem it is born into. It consumes everything it can find, eating...