Please, Amtrak, be more ambitious. There’s some good updates recently on the Amtrak expansion front. The long-awaited Atlanta-Chattanooga-Memphis (and Nashville) line(s) are currently under development,
Category: News & Politics
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I’m going to introduce you to my public domain acceleration plan, which may be excessive and not even cost-effective, but I still want to put
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I keep running into revolutionary whiners online, and honestly I think they’re one of the biggest problems in modern internet discussions. No matter whether it’s
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Over the past couple years, I’ve been really fixated on the idea of the Great Desensitization. I noticed it one year ago, when the Ukraine
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There’s one important thing about Ted Cruz Zodiac Killer as a conspiracy theory. One extremely important thing that people often overlook when asking the question
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The goddamn dirt road’s still there, I bet. Back in the 2020 election, I found a really good, really striking quote from an article about
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The Newsroom rant is one of the all-time famous moments from TV in the 2010s. And that’s saying something, because the 2010s were absolutely packed
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Pride Month 2022 is supposed to be a great time all throughout June. But how well can we celebrate it this year? Has the cynicism
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There were a couple nice years where the entire United States had a public enemy number one: Martin Shkreli. His company jacked up the price
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It took until 2017 for me to actually understand buses. I don’t know; there just weren’t buses anywhere I lived, not in any relevant capacity.