Editorials.

by the Editor Dad has left the building. It's been surprising to me, talking over different articles this month with their writers, where we're looking a lot at different places in the generations, it's struck me as odd how powerful and annoying a concept that turns out to be -- "Dad has left the building" -- for people when I say it, or take it for … [Read more...] about Dad Has Left The Building

  by the Editor   One of our mottoes here at the Press is “Happiness is not just a right:  it’s a duty.”  And the most cursory look around will prove the wisdom of that position.  Ever noticed how when someone gives you some grief about something that’s pretty much (when you think about it indignantly later) none of their … [Read more...] about Happiness is Not Just a Right: It’s a Duty

One of our mottoes here at the Press is “Happiness is not just a right:  it’s a duty.”  And the most cursory look around will prove the wisdom of that position.  Ever noticed how when someone gives you some grief about something that’s pretty much (when you think about it indignantly later) none of their damn business, that if you … [Read more...] about Happiness is Not Just a Right, it’s a Duty

One question Exterminating Angel Press is particularly interested in is why revolutions fail.  Fail, I mean, to deliver personal liberation and personal freedoms to the people who fought so hard for them in the first place.  It does seem to happen, over and over, that what was originally an almost supernaturally brave impulse against an unendurably repressive … [Read more...] about On Stumblings and Revolutions

  There are two forms of discussion that I can identify when I see them, and while one tends to camouflage itself as the other in order to get its way, you can still tell the difference if you’re paying attention.  The two types are these:  discussion to gain information, and discussion for the purpose of proving dominance.  The first is … [Read more...] about On Wanting to Know and Being Kind