2018 – Halfthoughts

Good Reasons to Dump Bad Friends

December 29, 2018 Eric Priezkalns 0

How do you know if you let the wrong person pick you as a friend? Here are some telltale signs. […]

At the End of the Day

November 30, 2018 Eric Priezkalns 0

Some words about the return of night. […]

Down and Fighting

October 31, 2018 Eric Priezkalns 0

A poem written from the perspective of a character who seeks vindication through conflict. […]

Why Even Pretend to Be Honest?

September 30, 2018 Eric Priezkalns 0

We are so wrapped in our own deceit that we can no longer even admit it to ourselves. […]

Gender Neutral Pronouns for Our Readers, Not Our Writers

August 31, 2018 Eric Priezkalns 0

If publishers of teen magazines and lawyers for civil rights bodies really wanted to change our language for the better then it would help if they actually followed the new rules they tell others to adopt. […]

Brexit Means Mass Starvation (or Something Like That)

July 29, 2018 Eric Priezkalns 0

The Observer’s restaurant critic has an opinion about international supply chains. It is as trivial as you might imagine. […]

#FlushLush: The Tax, Pay and Profiteering Vices of a Virtue-Signalling Cosmetics Business

June 1, 2018 Eric Priezkalns 1

They get fined for not paying their taxes, they broke the law on dividend payments and their top director enjoys an enormously excessive pay package, but Lush is a luxury cosmetics empire that thinks justice requires them to engage in crude and divisive political campaigning to the detriment of thousands of public servants. […]

Year: 2018