Every freelancer is acutely familiar with the constant struggle of chasing down invoices, but it’s something that remains invisible to the world.
Hidden costs: Chasing invoices
Category: commentary
On elitism and sanctimonious corrections of misspoken words
Being smug about correcting people for pronouncing something incorrectly or using the word makes you look like an elitist asshole, so stop doing it.
The military is not your rhetorical tool
Election years always contain more leveraging of the military than usual, but this year it was particularly bad. Veterans are people, not policy tools.
Laïcité and the burkini ban
The infamous burkini ban is allegedly about sexism, but it’s really about anything but — this is a calculated attack on Muslim women and girls hiding behind the shield of protecting freedoms.
We could learn a lot from jazz funerals
Jazz funerals offer an intriguing look into another way of commemorating death and acknowledging community grief.
Seriously don’t hassle people about their relationships and kids
When, if, and how people plan to build families is not your business, so stop asking.
Are there too many climbers on Everest?
The latest Everest climbing season included another round of terrible accidents. Should we be getting more aggressive about restricting access, given the extreme danger even for extremely fit and experienced mountaineers?
Belittling public grief for celebrities is meanspirited and wrongheaded
Those who enjoy mocking people for grieving celebrities are small minded and mean spirited, but they’re also straight up wrong. There’s more than one kind of attachment to the dead.
On VAXXED, and how not every opinion needs to be aired
Multiple controversies over VAXXED at film festivals ignore a larger point: Such festivals have the right to curate content, and they can decide not to air controversial and potentially dangerous views.
The peculiarity of Memorial Day
Memorial Day epitomises the strange way the United States approaches grief, the notion of ‘moving on,’ and the nation’s position within the larger global community. Should we be barbecuing for the dead or attending memorial services?