#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/

#TuesdayColumn: The arrest-without-cause of #MahmoudKhalil by zealous #ICE agents on #MarcoRubio impulse proves nothing new. The #USA has never been a law-abiding state... #deportationwithoutcause #columbiaprotests #WaronGaza #GenocideOnGaza #writing #politics #civilliberties #civilrights

A Once and Future Autocracy:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/a-once-and-future-autocracy/

#TuesdayColumn: #Canada picks its next #PrimeMinister, amidst #TradeWars and #EcologicalDisaster, and they pick... a central banker for the job?! #MarkCarney #Carney #politics #writing

https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/a-banker-general-for-a-trade-war/

#TuesdayColumn: #Trump ambushes #Zelenskyy on live television in the heart of the USA, delighting #Moscow and producing one of the most childish displays of #DiplomacyFailures in modern history. But at least now we have it on tape... #politics #writing #UkraineWar

Ambush in The Office:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/ambush-in-the-office/

#TuesdayColumn: When the atrocity of #SchoolShootings inevitably strikes close to home, the shock of it should serve to rattle us out of the complacency we otherwise wreathe ourselves in. #OrebroShooting #Örebro #Orebro #writing

The Name of the Game is Proximity:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/the-name-of-the-game-is-proximity/

#TuesdayColumn: As the German political Christians, #CDU, win the parliamentary election by #AfD support, it goes to show that #Christianity deserves a higher calibre of Christians. #Germany #politics #writing

Tacit Support is still Support:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/tacit-support-is-still-support/

#TuesdayColumn: The carousel comes around once more, with another tenure of #Trump to look forward to, and if I was disappointed last time, I guess this time 'round I'm just fed up. #politics #writing

Beware: Toddler's Driving (Again):
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/beware-toddlers-driving-again/

#TuesdayColumn: While #BigTech's cannibalizing the internet for content to train their #AI, Indian media moguls kick on #SamAltman's #OpenAI for a slice of the pie. #writing #tech

Scraping the Net:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/scraping-the-net/

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when you realise you can make an engineering career out of taking your dog on walkies... #waterleaks #engineering #workingdogs #dogs #writing

The Way of the Nose:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/the-way-of-the-nose/

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when #Siri spies on you in your home, and #Apple proves that being a multi-billion dollar company buys you the singular privilege of remaining innocent while still admitting guilt. #commercialspycraft #InformationTheft #writing #iphone

No Admission of Guilt:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/no-admission-of-guilt/

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when the world's biggest oligarch, #ElonMusk, wants the German democracy to bend to his will because he has money and a questionable judgement. #electioninterference #politics #Germany #writing

Meddling Mister Money-Bags:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/meddling-mister-money-bags/