History suggests they’re about to crash at unprecedented levels — To all but a handful of the most delusional and devout evangelicals, it’s pretty obvious at this point what the real intentions of abortion bans are. Between comments about the domestic supply of infants and racist dog whistles about white birth rates, the end goal is to artificially drive up…

As we approached the third year of the pandemic, a new type of COVID emerged. While the gradual reopening of public events and relaxing of mask mandates certainly didn’t help matters, it was also highly contagious and capable of stealthily evading protections offered by the most recent vaccine boosters. As…

A deep dive into the true terror of Silent Hill 3 — Silent Hill 3 is a popular horror game released in 2003. It has sold millions of copies and is still regarded as one of the greatest video games ever released. For the time, it had amazing graphics that pushed beyond available technology to shock players. It is widely considered to…

How A Bicycle Day Shirt Helped Me Come Out Of The Psychedelic Closet — Years ago, when I first transferred to the university I attended as an undergrad, I hoped to find other psychedelic users on campus. I can still remember the day my then-boyfriend and I first explored the campus after we had moved to town. …

I recently saw an article based upon a post on Reddit’s Am I The Asshole community, which gave me yet another reason to be thankful that I opted out of having kids. In the viral post which was unfortunately removed by moderators, a new mother asked whether it was fair…

There is something many conservatives, particularly religious ones, hate even more than the murder of innocent clumps of cells. Most of them won’t admit it, although they’ve gotten pretty close with legislative attacks on birth control and recent comments on Connecticut vs. Griswold, the landmark case that gave married couples…

A glimpse into the strange world of social media subcultures — Internet aesthetics have rapidly proliferated in the past few years, perhaps accelerated by the pandemic. Stuck at home and in need of new ways to connect with others, some people have turned to social media communities focused on unusual micro-trends. In 2020 alone, internet traffic to Aesthetics Wiki, a comprehensive…

How I survived with the help of Terence McKenna and an obscure classic rock song — Sometime in the mid-2000s, I had a bad trip on an isolated hiking trail in the giant redwood forests of Northern California. I will not reveal exactly what substance I took, or the dose of it, because that is not as important as you may think. Bad trips can happen…

Mescaline dosing for beginners — An unfortunate reality of taking natural psychedelics is that they can vary widely in potency and result in either unexpectedly heavy or disappointingly light trips. San Pedro and Peruvian Torch in particular can contain anywhere from 0–3% mescaline by weight, making them particularly hard to dose properly. This can be…