pythagorus

hello I'm a philosophy professor, social justice activist, and thoroughly mediocre, but enthusiastic chess player

the ongoing destruction of Palestinian society is one of the great crimes of the late 20th century, and Americans are paying for it.

Americans are also paying for an empire that is going to lead to unimaginable human suffering.

It is our duty to oppose it.

Corporate sponsorship will not save professional chess. The problem is that you have to be a player to enjoy watching, unlike other professional sports, so there isn't enough of a fan base for profitable advertising. This won't change

the same is true for lots of valuable things that require a major investment of time to appreciate - much music and art, philosophy, non-applied mathematics, etc.

3-0 is 3-0, not increment. If you lose on time in a drawn position, you lost. You played slower and lost. Really, don't complain.

Thanks to all the people on ICC who play and give me an excuse to escape the world for a while. (As for those on my noplaylist, well, you were all outrageously rude at one time or another.)

my real passions in life are thinking about things like the nature of language, normativity, understanding and logic.

that, and my incredible daughter and my wife.