Author Archives: JMN

(Continued from https://ethicaldative.com/2021/08/10/the-better-monday-agreement/) Old money needs kowtowing like a pig needs mud. Imagine a baseless pyramid if you can. No more could the Isthmian Brahmin caste thrive, absent a barred precariat, than an influencer devoid of dupes.  Providentially, in the … Continue reading →

(Continued from https://ethicaldative.com/2021/08/08/the-mamasutras-and-the-rhipidistians/) In the protracted era of the squabbles, the mamasutras kept handing the rhipidistians their sandwiches wrapped in a map. When the usual cycles of torture and maiming petered out, leaving the pulped factions scratching their heads, they … Continue reading →

(Continued from https://ethicaldative.com/2021/08/06/let-there-be-light-and-light-bed/) Over time the foothold of Huff Pugh Fuchs LLC diversified into Isthmia, a bustling conglomerate on the scoured plain of a tick of viable surface near whichever pole. The heirs and assigns of the founding fathers, Chuck, … Continue reading →

Continued from https://ethicaldative.com/2021/08/04/get-on-now-this-is-plumb-going-somewhere/) Cut to when now was then. The populations of Indo-Eurasia and continental Texas were gone — the hepafungus and the weather wiped ‘em out. A beleaguered clique of hedge fund managers drifted for months on soiled yachts. … Continue reading →

(Continued from https://ethicaldative.com/2021/08/02/hypothetical-reader-mon-semblable-mon-frere/) Huckster gonna huck and Nick be a-huckin’. What’s for sale exactly? Let’s do a level set. Rule of thumb: everything is putative. Here’s how it works: Compare figmentarianism to a courtroom trial. So-called fact is beside the … Continue reading →

(Continued from https://ethicaldative.com/2021/06/15/deluged-so-few-nor-dampened-so-many/) Is Nick Mansfield a crank who thinks figments, like faith, should be shielded from the fact police? Is Nick a procedure stuck in a loop with no exit condition? Are you and I, much less he, legal … Continue reading →