The Inner Monologue

Thinking Out Loud

The Cathedral of Porcelain

An Astonishing Meditation on the Hidden Cost of the Indoor Outhouse There is a room in every American home that we pretend does not exist until we urgently need it. It has no fireplace, no framed diplomas, no curated bookshelves arranged for Zoom. It does not advance our careers, display our taste, or impress the…
Campground Generator Policy

Quiet Camping Standard – Inverter Generators Only To preserve the natural soundscape and ensure a peaceful experience for all guests, the use of open-frame (“contractor-style”) generators is prohibited within the campground at all times. Permitted Equipment Only fully enclosed inverter generators that operate at or below 60 dBA measured at 23 feet (7 meters) are…
The Severance: A Hypothetical Timeline of Human Biological Stasis

Abstract This paper explores a speculative global event — called The Severance — in which all living humans become biologically ageless, with regenerative capacities restored to youthful levels, but without achieving true immortality. People remain vulnerable to death by disease, injury, or violence, though the aging process and all related degenerative effects are halted. The…
The Memory You’ll Need When It’s Gone

Antivaxxers love to talk about freedom. They wrap themselves in a flag they don’t understand, quoting science they’ve never studied, while treating modern medicine as though it were a conspiracy hatched in a basement by Bill Gates and the lizard people. And yet, beneath all their bluster, the only thing their freedom guarantees is loss.…
Red rock at golden hour.

What’s your favorite candy? We’re redefining candy as “eye candy”. Landscape — canyons, desert light, wind-carved stone — then I’ll take geology over sugar every time. Give me the buttes of rising from the desert floor like ancient monuments. They don’t just sit there — they command the horizon. The color shifts minute by minute:…
There is a peculiar argument that surfaces whenever a public figure says something ugly enough to provoke national recoil: At least he’s honest.

In this case, the defense goes like this: if a president shares a depiction of a black former president as a monkey, it may be crude, it may be offensive, but it is somehow honorable because it is unfiltered. Better to speak one’s mind than to suppress it. Better authenticity than hypocrisy. Better bluntness than…
NIH to Officially Recognize “Demonic Possession” as a Covered Condition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENational Institutes of Health (NIH)September 30, 2025 NIH to Officially Recognize “Demonic Possession” as a Covered Condition Certified Exorcists to Receive Federal Licensing; Medicare & Medicaid Coverage Announced Bethesda, MD — After decades of debate and centuries of anecdotal reports, the National Institutes of Health announced today that “demonic possession” will be recognized…
The Long Shadow of State Abuses: From Jim Crow to 2025

When we look back at American history, the worst abuses of state power seem obvious. Slavery, Jim Crow segregation, Native American displacement, internment camps, forced sterilization, and the systematic disenfranchisement of Black voters stand as towering examples of injustice. These were not just local policy mistakes—they were state-level choices that shaped the lives of millions,…
I’m not dead yet

The most important invention in your lifetime is… “The most important invention in your lifetime is…” —I can’t tell you. I’m not dead yet. Anything I name now is just a midpoint dressed up as a conclusion. The printing press looked finished until electricity showed up. Electricity looked finished until computation arrived. Computation looked finished…
The Crack That Was Never Empty

Imagine smashing a rock with a hammer. It splits.Air rushes in.You can see the crack. Now imagine the same thing happening a mile underground. Your brain probably pictures the same crack—just deeper. That’s where it gets weird. Deep underground, there is no empty space Far below the ground, rocks aren’t sitting in air. They’re squeezed…