Common Tropes And Disbelief
Common consensus is as consensual as common sense is sensible, yet both set as hard as concrete. Neither has any basis in reality.
Tag: Lies
Interviewing For A Job I Never Applied For
I didn’t mention to her my paralysing fear of talking to people; she wouldn’t have understood me.
In Search Of English China
Having been brought up on mild, cornflour-based sauces, and freezer vegetables, I can always get a meal I enjoy. My partner, not so much: She seeks out things with claims of actual Chinese heritage.
A Meditation On The Concept Of Truth
How many times does a lie have to be told for us to start believing that it may contain some degree of truth?
Life After Death, and Other Maudlin Hypocrisies
I am not going to sit here in my ivory tower of intellectual detachment and tell people to “get over it”. Do not get over it. You will never get over it.
A Little Bit Of Vaudeville
Is it a bad thing that I am participating in this process, even though I now know that I realistically do not want the job, even if offered it?
Angry Political Rant
The anger of the extremes – the most certain in the least tenable of views – are the ones who have put us in this position. I am sick of them.
