Hello, thanks for showing up and reading! (Two things a lot of your acquaintances aren’t willing to do, I’ll bet.) I’m very glad you’re here.
In this space, when I’m not irritating people by questioning political shibboleths— or sometimes irritating them by reaffirming a shibboleth or two (basically, people get irritated when I bring up a shibboleth)— …
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