The D.M.V. is a beacon of equality in this country. Celebrate the place where you can watch a celebrity fill out the same forms that you do.We should revel in the fact that there is no express lane for beautiful, rich people to renew their licenses.When you sit in those hard chairs...
with the intro, “Thought you might appreciate this.” So, someone *has* has been reading myscreeds against religious nonsense and bigotrythoughtful critiques of the dangers of entangling mythology and supernatural beliefs with cultural institutions and government....
(ii) People need three things in a job: (1) I get to do the types of tasks I love doing every day, (2) I get to do them in a company which is succeeding, and (3) My work makes the world a better place. So if you want to recruit great people, you need to have something ...
There is nobody in publishing whose job is to “keep you out.” Are we watching the gate? Yes!—to identify authors we’d like to see published. Each person who has a so-called “gatekeeping” role is tasked with finding authors tobring in, not authors to keep out. Anyone who acquir...
Publishing novels is not for the weak. There are many obstacles on the path to publication. Indie publishing cut through the gatekeeping with positive and negative results. Hybrid authors straddle that divide. In the past year, many authors began selling directly. If you can drive enough traffic...
This is not to suggest it is straightforward or that the process of transition isn’t riddled with gatekeeping bullshit, but trans people have the right to live in whatever gender role(s) suit, according to each person’s own determination. Trans people have the right to receive support to ...
It’s how I generally approach any new fad that looks to have become a hotbed for tribalism and gatekeeping; I’ve never been much of a joiner, so I go in with my eyes wide open, one foot outside, and I sift the wheat from the chaff of information I’m presented with. Very few...
I messaged the seller and told her that surely it's standard practice to state the actual transaction price on a package for customs purposes. Thst was it. She was straight into "What do you expect me to do?" etc. Then went into the woe-is-me 'artist ...
This is the season of our wild life. …I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, ...
Like theMonotheists Are The Worstauthor, I am religion-free, and wish that more[6]people viewed the world in the same way. Unlike the author, I do not think that “….our society would be vastly better, even (if it were still) full of religion, if we had pantheons instead of mon...