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Gene Glotzer March 28, 2023 1

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash It's funny, when I first heard about Silicon Valley Bank's failure, my initial reaction...

Gene Glotzer February 4, 2023 0

Photo by Diya Pokharel on Unsplash There has been a balloon floating over the US and Canada for the past...

Gene Glotzer January 28, 2023 1

Black Americans struggle with 'triggering' Tyre Nichols video - BBC News They released the video footage of Tyre Nichols' murder...

Gene Glotzer January 22, 2023 1

Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash I don't have a lot to say about Covid that hasn't been said...

Gene Glotzer January 1, 2023 0

Photo by Amokrane Ait-Kaci on Unsplash Tis the season for retrospectives and prognostication. Since I wrote a retrospective of 2022...

Gene Glotzer December 19, 2022 0

Photo by Craig Whitehead on Unsplash In Paul Simon's song "The Only Living Boy in New York" (It's an absolutely...

Gene Glotzer December 6, 2022 0

Photo by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash I have a weird relationship with satire. I love the idea of it,...

Jamil Ragland December 5, 2022 0

Photo by Neil Webb on Unsplash I've been following the news about the protests in Iran, mostly because police brutality...

Gene Glotzer November 12, 2022 0

I used to be a climate change optimist. Not a naive optimist, mind you, just an optimist. I wasn't expecting...

Gene Glotzer July 5, 2022 2

Photo by Mirah Curzer on Unsplash Over the past few weeks, the Supreme Court has handed down one incredibly awful...