My Internet Rants – in Blog Form
Current Events and Issues
In a recent video, Will Witt went around Rodeo Drive talking to random non-experts and using a number of fallacies to invalidate the gender-identity of transgender children. In my latest response video, I expose some of those fallacies. Some of Read more
Sometimes, a terrible person produces great artwork. Some of those times, I am able to separate the artwork from the artist’s problematic character – but in other situations, I am not able to. In my latest YouTube video, I explain Read more
For years now, visitors to Philadelphia’s Spruce Street Harbor Park have been able to see a monument to Christopher Columbus. But it is time to end it, whether by removing the monument or by rededicated – because today we know that Christopher Columbus was NOT the kind of person that a monument should be dedicated to.
Here in Philadelphia, the Election Commission is going to great pains to avoid the fiasco that we had in the Primaries repeating in the General Election. Things are indeed much more organized — but there are still some problems that Read more
The Harry Potter novels saw me through very dark times in my life. Unfortunately, JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter novels, has recently revealed herself to be a TERF (Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist). This has caused the Harry Potter novels to lose their ability to provide comfort to me, and probably many other people, some of who need them even more than I do.
I have not been outside very much during this pandemic. I am at somewhat elevated risk of complications in the event that I contract COVID-19 – and (rather than spend the pandemic in complete isolation from anyone) I have moved Read more
Classically Abby thinks that in the absence of a real-live Superman, conservatives are the warriors of truth, justice, and the American way. But in reality, they are not the Supermen in this scenario – more like the Lex Luthors.
Let us suppose (hypothetically) that you hired a maid with the expectation that she would clean the place – but instead of cleaning, she would do all kinds of things that made a mess of the place. To make matters worse, let us assume that you did not have the authority to fire her yourself, but needed permission from a board to fire her – and the board was reluctant to approve of such an action.
Now, let us translate this to the scenario that many minority communities in real life face with the police.
Classically Abby has released a video about why she believes that fetuses, embryos, and even blastulas should be given the rights of human personhood – even at the expense of the bodily autonomy of people with uteri. However, her arguments are all based on fallacy or misinformation – and some cases, nothing but emotional appeal.
Click here to see this video on its YouTube page. In the final installment to my reply to One Godless Woman’s “4 Questions for Third Wave Feminists” I discuss the “Enemy of My Enemy” principle, and how its misuse is Read more
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