A life in words

Bumbershoot internship/mentorship program appears racially discriminatory

36th legislative district representative Julia Reed’s recent newsletter contains this section: OPPORTUNITIES AT BUMBERSHOOT The Bumbershoot Festival is a highlight for the 36th district. It provides opportunities for local artists to showcase their work to wide audience and gives us the opportunity to see our favorite artists in our backyard. But the festival is also…

May 29, 2024
Quidism: the belief that things matter

The belief that nothing has objective or inherent meaning – commonly called nihilism – is quite popular these days. In some ways I’m sympathetic: if you come to reject or at least harbor serious skepticism of the existence of a non-material, spiritual realm, and that’s where you put ultimate meaning, then brute material reality seemingly…

April 9, 2024
Mandatory Housing Affordability does not make housing affordable

The core cause of unaffordable housing is there not being enough housing.

February 27, 2024

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this Representative Assembly. It should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them. That it may be the interest of this Assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or in other words equal interest among the people should have equal interest in it. Great care should be taken to effect this, and to prevent unfair, partial, and corrupt elections.

A life in words

Bumbershoot internship/mentorship program appears racially discriminatory

Quidism: the belief that things matter

Mandatory Housing Affordability does not make housing affordable