Josh
Just a person in the world, much like you. Trying to be fully human.
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A Love Letter to Punk Rock (opens the original)
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I want… no, I need to talk about punk rock right now, in September of 2026. Have you ever tried to talk about something that’s fundamental to who you try to be in the world, something that’s so dear to you that it’s best expressed in songs and poems and images rather than words? I’ve been trying to figure out how to do that, and it’s taken me awhile to find the words to say what I hope to say. Still not sure I’ve got them right, but here we go.Do What You Must, Do All You Can, Break All the Fuck
Trauma Shears and a Place for Grief (opens the original)
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“There is a saying that grief is love with nowhere to go, but grief with nowhere to go is… this.”This quote is from Sarah Kendzior’s most recent book “The Last American Road Trip”. I bought it as a preorder in December 2024, received it in March 2025, and just started reading it a couple of weeks ago. I waited so long because I know her writing well. I knew I would have to make s
The Biomedical Workforce and the Wisdom of Farmers (opens the original)
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I did a lot of my growing up in a rural farming town in southern Illinois. My grandfather and my uncle were both farmers, and so were a bunch of my friends and their families. I loved the radio show A Prairie Home Companion because it always felt like it could’ve been talking about my hometown. Much like Lake Wobegon, actual farming towns of the rural Midwest really are filled with a wonderful cast of characters spouting folksy sorts of wisdom. I hadn’t fully appreciated how true this was until
Fall In Love With Complexity (feat. The Ramones) (opens the original)
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When I was in college, I got really excited about Michael Behe’s book “Darwin’s Black Box”. A lot of people did. It had just been published, and it was generating lots of discussions on college campuses and in the general reading public. The book is intended to be a challenge to the theory of evolution, and the challenge is based on Behe’s concept of “irreducible complexity”. The notion is pretty straightforward. The living systems that populate the Earth are noggin-poppingly complex. We think o
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