Belated #TuesdayColumn: #Trump's Orange House wages war on statistics, as the #BLS #JobGrowth data doesn't reflect Trump's fairy-tale, and its Commissioner is fired. #writing #politics

Lose Your Head over Statistics:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/to-lose-your-head-over-statistics/

#TuesdayColumn: As #France becomes one of the last nations, and first among the #G7, to recognize the #StateOfPalestine, the only remarkable thing about it is how long it took. #PalestineStatehood #Macron #politics #writing

About Damned Time:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/about-damned-time/

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when #authoritarinism weaponizes #capitalism to silence criticism, and #StephenColbert gets thrown off the air only to let Skydance eat Paramount #writing #politics

The Silencing of Colbert:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/the-silencing-of-colbert/

#TuesdayColumn: As the #DalaiLama90 celebrates his 90th birthday, #China's #CCP contests his coming succession as a matter of domestic policy - as opposed to a religious tradition in #Buddhism... #writing #politics #tyranny

The Battle for the Reincarnate:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/the-battle-over-the-reincarnate/

#TuesdayColumn: In which we celebrate the public integrity of #UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and how she doesn't shy away from spelling out the realities of the #GenocideInGaza. #politics #writing

UNorthodox Virtue:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/unorthodox-virtue/

#TuesdayColumn: Swedish #SocialWorkers excuse their #racist support pamphlets, which depict ethnic minorities as #AngryMonkeys, by saying that "#AI made it", and make themselves a cautionary tale of blindly following #TechTrends... #ArgaApor #writing

An Automation of Angry Apes:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/an-automation-of-angry-apes/

#TuesdayColumn: When the tourists descend like locusts, the Spanish bring out their water pistols. #Tourism #Spain #politics #airbnb #writing

Good Riddance to Bad Guests:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/another-kind-of-colonialism/

#TuesdayColumn: While #Trump sends military forces to perform policing in riotous #LosAngeles - riots the federal state directly caused - it bears the question whether the #MonopolyOfViolence needs be rescinded... #LARiots #lariots2025 #writing #politics

Against the Monopoly of Violence:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/against-the-monopoly-of-violence/

#TuesdayColumn: The bromance of #Trump and #Musk collapses, pitting the two pillars of the #GOP in social media-battle, and I've never enjoyed watching monkeys fight in the zoo as much as this before. #MuskvsTrump #TrumpvsMusk #politics #writing

The Children at the Wheel:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/the-children-at-the-wheel/

#TuesdayColumn: As #Trump's US says "join or pay" to its northern neighbour, it reminds me that we used to have a name for nation states that disregard the #InternationalOrder... #GoldenDome #Canada #RogueState #politics #writing

Another Rogue State:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/another-rogue-state/

#TuesdayColumn: As a young #IsraelEmbassy couple die in #DCshooting, and #FloridaMan guns down Israeli father and son "suspected of being Palestinian", we're served an illustration how Hate is a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction. #GazaGenocide #writing #philosophy #politics

A Beast of Two Maws:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/a-beast-of-two-maws/

#TuesdayColumn: A #Stalinist Revival simmers across #Russia, with monuments raised and statues carved in honour of one of the greatest mass murderers of modern history. Boz moi. #Stalin #UkraineWar #writing

A Stalinist Revival:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/a-stalinist-revival/

#TuesdayColumn: In a little strike against #capitalism's fiscal disparity, #BillGates makes the rest of the world's billionaires look bad by pledging to give away 99% of his #wealth. #Inequality #WealthInequality #writing

A Good Start:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/a-good-start/

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when the #FreeSpeech warriors turn their spears upon the people who exercise their Freedom of Speech. #UniversityProtests #GenocideInPalestine #Trump #writing #politics

The Orange Freedom of Speech:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/the-orange-freedom-of-speech/

#TuesdayColumn: Bees are making a come-back worldwide, proving that with mindfulness and effort, great mistakes can be corrected so long as you make them a priority... #environmentalism #conservationism #pollinization #BeeComeback #writing

Don't Stop Bee-lievning:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/dont-stop-bee-lieving/

#TuesdayColumn: The US #TradeWar essentially amounts to American ultimatums to its friends and enemies alike, swiftly proving that there's no such thing as a friend of America's any more. #Trump #TrumpTradeWar #politics #writing

Tariff Treachery:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/tariff-treachery/

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when pundits panic as #ColossalBioscience brings the pre-historic #DireWolf back to life after 12'000 years of absence. #deextinction #conservationism #writing

Bigby's Back:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/bigbys-back/

#TuesdayColumn: It is easy to sneer at a neo-#fascist #Italy restricting #citizenship rights as just another #populist encroachment. Then again, legitimate citizenry is an important fundament to any #democracy... #poltiics #writing

Gate-Keeping Citizenship:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/citizenship-gate-keeping/

#TuesdayColumn: With the 'death of God', humanity's left without that sweet validating judgement we oh so crave. And 25 years ago, in #DeusEx, #BigData was suggested to take up that mantle of omniscient arbiter... #AI #datamining #BigTech #writing #tech

The Divine Mandate of Big-Data:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/the-divine-mandate-of-big-data/

#TuesdayColumn: Consumers rage against #ElonMusk by attacking #Tesla, vandalizing cars and torching charging stations, striking at the billionaire where it hurts the most. And it seems to be working... #TeslaTakedown #VotingWithYourWallet #politics #writing

The Tesla Takedown:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/the-tesla-takedown/