# Hill Mole

> Hill Mole is Chris Abraham's serialized confession novel, written in installments from 2005 to 2022 against an espionage backdrop in Washington, DC. 309 entries, May 2005 to June 2022.

The entries are fiction, written in the first person, and are meant to be read in order from the first. Each entry has a permanent URL in the form /archives/YYYY/MM/name.html that has not changed since it was published. The text is © Chris Abraham; quote with attribution and a link to the entry.

- [Full text of every entry](https://hillmole.com/llms-full.txt): plain text, oldest first
- [Start at the beginning](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/i_was_merely_a.html): "I Was Merely a Dupe and a Fool.", May 13, 2005
- [Latest entry](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/fighting_firear.html): "Fighting firearms with firearms", June 11, 2022
- [The star-nosed mole](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/star-nosed_mole.html): the creature in the banner
- [About Hill Mole](https://hillmole.com/about.html): what it is, who wrote it, where to start
- [Hill Mole on Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD7VZJJB?tag=gerris-20): the ebook edition on Amazon (ASIN B0DD7VZJJB)
- [All entries](https://hillmole.com/archives.html): every entry by date

## Entries

- [I Was Merely a Dupe and a Fool.](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/i_was_merely_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Inside the Beltway](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/inside_the_belt.html): 2005-05-13
- [According to Plan](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/according_to_pl.html): 2005-05-13
- [Adult Concerns](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/adult_concerns.html): 2005-05-13
- [Privy to the Patterns](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/privy_to_the_pa.html): 2005-05-13
- [Drunken Pub Crawl](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/drunken_pub_cra.html): 2005-05-13
- [Crawling Forward Together](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/crawling_forwar.html): 2005-05-13
- [The Blimp](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/the_blimp.html): 2005-05-13
- [Bike Messenger](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/bike_messenger.html): 2005-05-13
- [Pre-Internet in a Big Way](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/preinternet_in.html): 2005-05-13
- [Washington Summers](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/washington_summ.html): 2005-05-13
- [Capitol Hill was Open Door](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/washington_capi.html): 2005-05-13
- [Security Eats Away](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/security_eats_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Insidious Security Model](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/insidious_secur.html): 2005-05-13
- [Buddy in the Business](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/buddy_is_in_the.html): 2005-05-13
- [False-Positives](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/false-positives.html): 2005-05-13
- [In Washington Nobody is Truly Private Sector](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/in_washington_n.html): 2005-05-13
- [Spies are Everywhere](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/spies_are_every.html): 2005-05-13
- [Emergent Systems](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/emergent_system.html): 2005-05-13
- [We Have Outsourced Evolution to Culture](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/we_have_outsour.html): 2005-05-13
- [Bee Hives and Ant Colonies](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/bee_hives_and_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Hives Cannot be Controlled Outright](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/hives_cannot_be.html): 2005-05-13
- [Washington was Planned](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/washington_was.html): 2005-05-13
- [Washington is Rife with Intrigue](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/washington_is_r.html): 2005-05-13
- [Gaunt and Exhausted](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/gaunt_and_exhau.html): 2005-05-13
- [All Bezel and Links](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/all_bezel_and_l.html): 2005-05-13
- [In One Deft Motion](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/in_one_deft_mot.html): 2005-05-13
- [Shower Gel in the Bathroom](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/shower_gel_in_t.html): 2005-05-13
- [I Was a Haole](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/i_was_a_haole.html): 2005-05-13
- [Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/junior_reserve.html): 2005-05-13
- [Class A’s on Thursdays](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/class_as_on_thu.html): 2005-05-13
- [Being a Young Cadet](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/being_a_young_c.html): 2005-05-13
- [I Want to Be An Airborne Ranger](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/i_want_to_be_an.html): 2005-05-13
- [Exit, Stage Left](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/exit_stage_left.html): 2005-05-13
- [A Code of Silence](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/a_code_of_silen.html): 2005-05-13
- [Us Cadets](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/us_cadets.html): 2005-05-13
- [A Fresh Clip of Ammo into the Chamber](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/a_fresh_clip_of.html): 2005-05-13
- [Spetsnaz-Trained Special Forces Operatives](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/spetsnaz-traine.html): 2005-05-13
- [Hazing](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/hazing.html): 2005-05-13
- [A Bite to Eat at Zack’s](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/a_bite_to_eat_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Zack’s is Small and Dark](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/zacks_is_small.html): 2005-05-13
- [Situational and Locational Drinking](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/situational_and.html): 2005-05-13
- [The Chameleon About Me](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/the_chameleon_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Ceding My Food Choice](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/ceding_my_food.html): 2005-05-13
- [A Spidey Sense](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/a_spidey_sense.html): 2005-05-13
- [Fucking Haole](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/fucking_haole.html): 2005-05-13
- [City Rules of Engagement](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/city_rules_of_e.html): 2005-05-13
- [Fire Can Lick Behind These Eyes](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/fire_can_lick_b.html): 2005-05-13
- [Photographers are Allowed to Look Deeply](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/photographers_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Emerson’s Invisible Eye](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/emersonians_inv.html): 2005-05-13
- [Some Really Fucked Up Stuff](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/some_really_fuc.html): 2005-05-13
- [An Easy Mark](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/an_easy_mark.html): 2005-05-13
- [Ants Don’t Exist as Individuals](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/ants_dont_exist.html): 2005-05-13
- [Buy All Your Clothes from the Gap](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/buy_all_your_cl.html): 2005-05-13
- [Influencing the Experiment’s Outcome](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/influencing_the.html): 2005-05-13
- [There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/there_is_no_suc.html): 2005-05-13
- [Crack-Addled Lab Rat](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/crack-addled_la.html): 2005-05-13
- [No Longer Amused with Clever](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/no_longer_amuse.html): 2005-05-13
- [Doctor, Lawyer, CEO, Politician, Priest, Teacher, Capitalist, Investment Banker](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/doctor_lawyer_c.html): 2005-05-13
- [Fancying Myself So Clever](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/fancying_myself.html): 2005-05-13
- [Myself, My New Wife, and My Future Children](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/myself_my_new_w.html): 2005-05-13
- [Sour Grapes](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/sour_grapes.html): 2005-05-13
- [To Quell Unrest and to Avoid Widespread Panic](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/to_quell_unrest.html): 2005-05-13
- [Nobody Gives a Fuck](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/nobody_gives_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Quite Talented](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/quite_talented.html): 2005-05-13
- [Dosed on Acid](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/dosed_on_acid.html): 2005-05-13
- [All the Shapes and Colors Around Me](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/all_the_shapes.html): 2005-05-13
- [People Recognize Patterns](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/people_recogniz.html): 2005-05-13
- [Pervert or Kidnapper](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/pervert_or_kidn.html): 2005-05-13
- [Hiding in Plain Sight](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/hiding_in_plain.html): 2005-05-13
- [Exactly the Opposite](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/exactly_the_opp.html): 2005-05-13
- [The Lovers My Lovers Have Had](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/the_lovers_my_l.html): 2005-05-13
- [Change Isn’t Always Good](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/change_isnt_alw.html): 2005-05-13
- [It Takes a Village to Raise a Holy Man](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/it_takes_a_vill.html): 2005-05-13
- [I Do My Kegels](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/i_do_my_kegels.html): 2005-05-13
- [Bumbling Around](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/bumbling_around.html): 2005-05-13
- [Swirling Balls of Energy and Light](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/swirling_balls.html): 2005-05-13
- [ID and Passport](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/id_and_passport.html): 2005-05-13
- [False Name](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/false_name.html): 2005-05-13
- [Only Your Failures](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/only_your_failu.html): 2005-05-13
- [Full of Pride and Hunger](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/full_of_pride_a.html): 2005-05-13
- [Catch-22](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/catch-22.html): 2005-05-13
- [Memory of a Simpler Time and a Better Woman](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/memory_of_a_sim.html): 2005-05-13
- [The Suggestion of the Thing is the Thing](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/the_suggestion.html): 2005-05-13
- [The World’s Baby’s Daddy](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/the_worlds_baby.html): 2005-05-13
- [Mutates Base Constructs](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/mutates_base_co.html): 2005-05-13
- [The Sea is a Mean Bitch](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/the_sea_is_a_me.html): 2005-05-18
- [She Seems Gentle But it is Life or Death](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/she_seems_gentl.html): 2005-05-18
- [Spotting Enemy](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/spotting_enemy.html): 2005-05-18
- [Silent Movement](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/silent_movement.html): 2005-05-18
- [Kung Fu Movies](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/kung_fu_movies.html): 2005-05-18
- [Taking Evasive Maneuvers](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/taking_evasive.html): 2005-05-18
- [Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/cuckoo_cuckoo_c.html): 2005-05-18
- [The Painter](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/the_painter.html): 2005-05-19
- [Phony Francophone Lecher](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/phony_francopho.html): 2005-05-19
- [If You’re Going to Fuck Them, Make It Feel Good](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/if_youre_going.html): 2005-05-19
- [Dirty Hippy Backpacker Cum Spy](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/dirty_hippy_bac.html): 2005-05-23
- [A Backpack, Hiking Boots, Secret Pockets, Pouch Pockets](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/a_backpack_hiki.html): 2005-05-23
- [Joe Average](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/joe_average.html): 2005-05-23
- [All The Operators I Know Are Average Height](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/all_the_operato.html): 2005-05-23
- [Bar Spies](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/05/bar_spies.html): 2005-05-23
- [Pecking Order Amongst Spies](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/06/pecking_order_a.html): 2005-06-13
- [The Motivation Behind Becoming a Government-Sponsored Spy](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/06/the_motivation.html): 2005-06-13
- [We Both Wanted to be James Bond](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/06/we_both_want_to.html): 2005-06-13
- [Cover, Concealment, and Camouflage](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/cover_concealme.html): 2005-07-02
- [Hiding in Plain Sight](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/hiding_in_plain_1.html): 2005-07-02
- [The Most Important Skill in Hunting is Patience](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/the_most_import.html): 2005-07-02
- [The Most Important Skill for a Sniper is Patience](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/the_most_import_1.html): 2005-07-02
- [The Most Important Skill in Spying is Patience](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/the_most_import_2.html): 2005-07-02
- [Cap Hill Camo](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/cap_hill_camo.html): 2005-07-05
- [All This Stuff](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/all_this_stuff.html): 2005-07-05
- [Don’t I Know You?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/dont_i_know_you.html): 2005-07-22
- [Be Discreet in All Things, and So Render it Unnecessary to be Mysterious](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/be_discreet_in.html): 2005-07-25
- [The Panopticon Has Cataracts](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/the_panopticon.html): 2005-07-25
- [Technology is 30-Years Ahead of Now](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/technology_is_3.html): 2005-07-26
- [Pyrite](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/pyrite.html): 2005-07-27
- [Doctors Have Been Known to Lose Patients](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/07/doctors_have_be.html): 2005-07-27
- [Infinite Loop and Core Dump](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/infinite_loop_a.html): 2005-08-02
- [Breathing Into A Brown Paper Sack](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/breathing_into.html): 2005-08-02
- [Wet Pillow](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/wet_pillow.html): 2005-08-02
- [Sousveillance and the Sousveiller](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/sousveillance_a.html): 2005-08-03
- [A Cigar is Never a Cigar](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/a_cigar_is_neve.html): 2005-08-05
- [Charm is Never Incidental](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/charm_is_never.html): 2005-08-05
- [Struggle or Play Dead](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/struggle_or_pla.html): 2005-08-05
- [The Wives I Fuck in Dark Motel Rooms](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/the_wives_i_fuc.html): 2005-08-06
- [Star-Nosed Mole (Condylura cristata cristata)](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/star-nosed_mole.html): 2005-08-06
- [Olly Olly Oxen Free](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/olly_olly_oxen.html): 2005-08-09
- [The Mata Hari Syndrome](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/mata_hari.html): 2005-08-09
- [Open Season on Going Through His Shit](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/open_season_on.html): 2005-08-09
- [Serendipity & Coincidence](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/serendipity_coi.html): 2005-08-10
- [Little Kids in Langley Protect National Security](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/little_kids_in.html): 2005-08-15
- [Secrets are Kept Every Day](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/08/secrets_are_kep.html): 2005-08-17
- [The iPod as Listening Device](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/11/the_ipod_as_lis.html): 2005-11-20
- [The Best Spy is an Introvert](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/11/the_best_spy_is.html): 2005-11-21
- [Toppling Governments (And Souls) Using the Seven Deadly Sins](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/11/toppling_govern.html): 2005-11-21
- [Good Things Come to Those Who Wait](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/12/good_things_com.html): 2005-12-20
- [Making Sausage Versus Sausage Making](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/12/making_sausage.html): 2005-12-28
- [Constant Peace Through Constant War](https://hillmole.com/archives/2005/12/constant_peace.html): 2005-12-31
- [It Takes Two to Be Discrete](https://hillmole.com/archives/2006/11/it_takes_two_to.html): 2006-11-23
- [It Takes Two to Keep a Secret](https://hillmole.com/archives/2006/11/it_takes_two_to_1.html): 2006-11-23
- [How to Cheat on Your Spouse or Significant Other](https://hillmole.com/archives/2006/11/how_to_cheat_on.html): 2006-11-23
- [Stay Home on New Year’s Eve](https://hillmole.com/archives/2006/12/stay_home_on_ne.html): 2006-12-31
- [Upon Moving to Berlin](https://hillmole.com/archives/2008/05/upon_moving_to.html): 2008-05-01
- [Public Relations is Newspeak for Propaganda](https://hillmole.com/archives/2008/05/public_relation.html): 2008-05-05
- [When Business Intelligence and Spycraft Meet](https://hillmole.com/archives/2008/05/when_business_i.html): 2008-05-10
- [How well do you really know someone?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2008/12/how_well_do_you.html): 2008-12-14
- [Making a Spy in a Poor Multicultural City is Tough](https://hillmole.com/archives/2008/12/making_a_spy_in.html): 2008-12-21
- [Spies are Everywhere](https://hillmole.com/archives/2009/05/spies_are_every_1.html): 2009-05-24
- [Spies Can Be More Couch Potato Than Action Hero](https://hillmole.com/archives/2009/07/spies_can_be_mo.html): 2009-07-06
- [Hapless Fools are Decoys](https://hillmole.com/archives/2010/12/hapless_fools_a.html): 2010-12-16
- [Wearing Down](https://hillmole.com/archives/2011/06/wearing_down_an.html): 2011-06-19
- [Your Spy is Never Who You Think by Design](https://hillmole.com/archives/2012/03/your_spy_is_nev.html): 2012-03-29
- [Bribery, Blackmail, and Coercion](https://hillmole.com/archives/2013/07/bribery_blackma.html): 2013-07-19
- [Even Spies Are Recruited By Headhunters](https://hillmole.com/archives/2015/11/even_spies_are.html): 2015-11-12
- [You’ve got to be kidding me](https://hillmole.com/archives/2019/05/youve_got_to_be.html): 2019-05-29
- [And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars](https://hillmole.com/archives/2019/05/and_ye_shall_he.html): 2019-05-30
- [Loneliness kills](https://hillmole.com/archives/2019/06/loneliness_kill.html): 2019-06-03
- [I don’t know if sharpshooting has anything to do with the eyes](https://hillmole.com/archives/2019/06/i_dont_know_if.html): 2019-06-12
- [False Name](https://hillmole.com/archives/2019/06/false_name_1.html): 2019-06-16
- [Little Grey Men](https://hillmole.com/archives/2019/06/little_grey_men.html): 2019-06-17
- [It’s all fancy dress](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/its_all_fancy_d.html): 2020-06-10
- [Police have almost limitless freedom](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/police_have_alm.html): 2020-06-13
- [A double-O license to kill](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/a_doubleo_licen.html): 2020-06-13
- [You will be extremely discreet with your gun carry](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/you_will_be_ext.html): 2020-06-13
- [Nobody really uses the holsters or rigs you would think](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/nobody_really_u.html): 2020-06-13
- [It’s perfectly permissible to draw my firearm and shoot someone](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/its_perfectly_p.html): 2020-06-13
- [As many shots as is required but not one more](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/as_many_shots_a.html): 2020-06-13
- [I’ll probably, legally, shoot you to death](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/ill_probably_le.html): 2020-06-13
- [If you shoot someone, kill them](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/if_you_shoot_so.html): 2020-06-13
- [It really is indefensible if you shoot someone in the head](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/it_really_is_in.html): 2020-06-13
- [Never to telegraph that you’re carrying](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/never_to_telegr.html): 2020-06-13
- [Someone with a pistol has only a fraction of a second of fire superiority](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/someone_with_a.html): 2020-06-13
- [Never video record yourself defending your home with deadly force](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/06/never_video_rec.html): 2020-06-14
- [50 is when men retire from a life of adventure](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/08/50_is_when_men.html): 2020-08-12
- [The Smith–Mundt Act is Dead](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/the_smithmundt.html): 2020-09-03
- [False equivalence is a rhetorical device](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/false_equivalen.html): 2020-09-04
- [When people use the rhetorical riposte](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/when_people_use.html): 2020-09-05
- [So don’t be afraid to let them show your true colors](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/so_dont_be_afra.html): 2020-09-05
- [Godwin’s rule of Trump analogies](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/godwins_rule_of.html): 2020-09-05
- [I am an oddball because I have never lived in a concrete world](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/i_am_an_oddball.html): 2020-09-05
- [Shame and humiliation are only a short-game](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/shame_and_humil.html): 2020-09-05
- [The shy Trump factor will get Donald Trump handily reëlected in November](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/the_shy_trump_f.html): 2020-09-07
- [Trump is a terrible authoritarian autocrat](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/trump_is_a_terr.html): 2020-09-08
- [Blowback, unintended consequences, unwanted side-effects, suffered repercussions](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/blowback_uninte.html): 2020-09-09
- [Manufacture of consent defined](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/manufacture_of.html): 2020-09-09
- [West coast fires are false flag ecoterrorism](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/west_coast_fire.html): 2020-09-15
- [COVID testing or COVID distribution centers](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/covid_testing_o.html): 2020-09-27
- [A rational theory of COVID testing centers as COVID distribution centers](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/a_rational_theo.html): 2020-09-27
- [Conspiracy theory of COVID testing centers as COVID distribution centers](https://hillmole.com/archives/2020/09/conspiracy_theo.html): 2020-09-29
- [Trump’s Atrocities Were Never Actualities](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/trumps_atrociti.html): 2021-01-22
- [J’existe](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/jexiste.html): 2021-01-22
- [The Burble and Pop of Distant Fireworks](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/the_burble_and.html): 2021-01-22
- [President of Half the Country](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/president_of_ha.html): 2021-01-22
- [Othering](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/othering.html): 2021-01-22
- [The Double Standard](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/the_double_stan.html): 2021-01-22
- [μετάνοια](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/metanoia.html): 2021-01-22
- [How Atrocious Was January Sixth Actually?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/how_atrocious_w.html): 2021-01-22
- [Censorship is Other People](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/censorship_is_o.html): 2021-01-22
- [Molehill](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/molehill.html): 2021-01-22
- [Traumatizationability](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/traumatizationa.html): 2021-01-22
- [Is right wing radicalization a recruitment or a seduction?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/is_right_wing_r.html): 2021-01-26
- [How about this as a baseless Novel Coronavirus theory?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/how_about_this.html): 2021-01-26
- [Our secrets are our sickness](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/01/our_secrets_are.html): 2021-01-27
- [Killing Fox News to save the soul of America from itself](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/02/killing_fox_new.html): 2021-02-06
- [Can one spend a country out of systemic racism?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/02/can_one_spend_a.html): 2021-02-08
- [With no evidence](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/02/with_no_evidenc.html): 2021-02-08
- [Can you dismantle the master’s home with reparations](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/02/can_you_dismant.html): 2021-02-08
- [Should America open its borders like other countries?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/04/should_america.html): 2021-04-12
- [Nobody at all actually cares about raping or pillaging](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/04/nobody_at_all_a.html): 2021-04-12
- [Nobody gets killed over expired tags or a broken taillight](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/04/nobody_gets_kil.html): 2021-04-19
- [Going to war to save Afghani women](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/04/going_to_war_to.html): 2021-04-20
- [Ceci n’est pas une pipe](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/05/ceci_nest_pas_u.html): 2021-05-13
- [Don’t come at someone panicking head on](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/05/dont_come_at_so.html): 2021-05-26
- [When a coup isn’t, what is it?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/05/when_a_coup_isn.html): 2021-05-27
- [Germans made Hitler; Americans make Trump](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/germans_made_hi.html): 2021-07-04
- [Is anti-racism anti-assimilation](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/is_antiracism_a.html): 2021-07-04
- [If anti-racism rejects default culture what’s embraced instead?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/if_antiracism_r.html): 2021-07-04
- [Whatever happened to code-switching?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/whatever_happen.html): 2021-07-04
- [Raising a Trump flag or poster isn’t about Donald Trump anymore](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/raising_a_trump.html): 2021-07-04
- [Trump is just the pupu platter](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/trump_is_just_t.html): 2021-07-04
- [Useful idiots](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/useful_idiots.html): 2021-07-04
- [The only reason to go offworld is for remittance money](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/the_only_reason_to_go_offworld_is_for_sick_remittance_money.html): 2021-07-07
- [January 6th was the worst American Reichstag Fire ever](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/january_6th_was_the_worst_american_reichstag_fire_ever.html): 2021-07-08
- [History is always subjective](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/history_is_alwa.html): 2021-07-09
- [Folks know that guns are for killing humans](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/folks_know_that.html): 2021-07-09
- [Loutish German soccer hooligans singing soccer shanties.](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/07/loutish_german.html): 2021-07-12
- [Aegrescit medendo](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/aegrescit_meden.html): 2021-08-10
- [It’s a terrible time to be a climate activist](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/its_a_terrible.html): 2021-08-13
- [Stop using girls and women as political props](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/stop_using_girl.html): 2021-08-14
- [Are you actually pro free speech and pro democracy?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/are_you_actuall.html): 2021-08-14
- [Germany is always either extremely Fascist or Antifaschistische](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/germany_is_alwa.html): 2021-08-14
- [Nazis and Wokies Sitting in a Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/nazis_and_wokie.html): 2021-08-14
- [Déjà Afghanistan](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/deja_afghanista.html): 2021-08-15
- [Graveyard of empires](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/graveyard_of_em.html): 2021-08-15
- [Train thy enemy](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/train_thy_enemy.html): 2021-08-15
- [NPR Warhawks](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/npr_warhawks.html): 2021-08-15
- [Darkness Will Engulf the World!](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/darkness_will_e.html): 2021-08-16
- [How will the Taliban fly the left behind Blackhawks?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/how_will_the_ta.html): 2021-08-22
- [Look at how women in Afghanistan are treated! Outrageous!](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/look_at_how_wom.html): 2021-08-23
- [Still Saving Pagan Babies in 2021](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/still_saving_pa.html): 2021-08-24
- [America could win the Afghan war with crimes against humanity](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/america_could_h.html): 2021-08-27
- [Biden blames Trump for Not Getting Marines Killed?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/biden_blames_tr.html): 2021-08-27
- [To Tell the Afghanistan Truth](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/08/to_tell_the_afg.html): 2021-08-28
- [Donald Trump was the worst Adolf Hitler ever](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/donald_trump_wa.html): 2021-09-01
- [Red, blue, black, brown, yellow, red, pink, rainbow](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/red_blue_black.html): 2021-09-04
- [Did America completely brain drain Afghanistan?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/did_america_com.html): 2021-09-06
- [Too early to be grateful](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/too_early_to_be.html): 2021-09-06
- [Dear illogical talking heads on the brink of two decades post-9/1](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/dear_illogical.html): 2021-09-06
- [Repent sinner](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/repent_sinner.html): 2021-09-10
- [Authoritarianism for public safety is still authoritarianism](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/auahoritarianis.html): 2021-09-10
- [Nobody cares about climate change nearly enough](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/nobody_cares_ab.html): 2021-09-15
- [When “Nazi!” is no longer a kill shot](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/when_nazi_is_no.html): 2021-09-18
- [Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/09/nowhere_to_run.html): 2021-09-19
- [Yelling fire in a crowded theater](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/10/yelling_fire_in.html): 2021-10-03
- [Friends feeding frenzy](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/10/friends_feeding.html): 2021-10-07
- [Ivermectin](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/10/ivermectin.html): 2021-10-07
- [Don’t ever let the people think for themselves](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/10/dont_ever_let_t.html): 2021-10-10
- [It’s the invisible hand](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/10/its_the_invisib.html): 2021-10-22
- [The Press is doing a Lazarus](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/10/the_press_is_do.html): 2021-10-30
- [The progressive pendulum is swinging right](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/the_progressive.html): 2021-11-02
- [Eat me, Drake equation](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/eat_me_drake_eq.html): 2021-11-04
- [The hill they’re willing to die on](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/the_hill_theyre.html): 2021-11-04
- [A lifetime on the hips](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/a_lifetime_on_t.html): 2021-11-08
- [Critical race theory](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/critical_race_t.html): 2021-11-08
- [Gun v fist](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/gun_v_fist.html): 2021-11-11
- [Dear activists](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/dear_activists.html): 2021-11-11
- [Justifiable homicide](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/justifiable_hom.html): 2021-11-20
- [Redeeming your enemy’s heroes](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/redeeming_your.html): 2021-11-20
- [The state of American vigilantism](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/the_state_of_am.html): 2021-11-22
- [Nerds are never really cool even if they’re the elected leaders](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/11/nerds_are_never.html): 2021-11-26
- [Noble lie](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/12/noble_lie.html): 2021-12-03
- [The Trauma Wars](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/12/the_trauma_wars.html): 2021-12-14
- [Everything dies baby that’s a fact](https://hillmole.com/archives/2021/12/everything_dies.html): 2021-12-21
- [Actual weapons systems are 30 years in the future](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/actual_weapons.html): 2022-01-10
- [How climate mitigation will actually work](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/how_climate_mit.html): 2022-01-13
- [The Hague](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/the_hague.html): 2022-01-25
- [Booster Shot](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/booster_shot.html): 2022-01-25
- [Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War The Musical](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/nikita_khrushch.html): 2022-01-26
- [Embargoes and Sanction](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/embargoes_and_s.html): 2022-01-27
- [Wrong speech](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/wrong_speech.html): 2022-01-28
- [Maus](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/maus.html): 2022-01-29
- [Spotify 451](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/01/spotify_451.html): 2022-01-30
- [Americans immune to being called Nazis](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/americans_immun.html): 2022-02-01
- [Covid modalities](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/covid_modalitie.html): 2022-02-01
- [Do I really think that Russia isn’t a bad actor?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/do_i_really_thi.html): 2022-02-12
- [How fucked is Germany right now?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/how_fucked_is_g.html): 2022-02-12
- [Not even one dirty bomb in 72 years is suspicious](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/not_even_one_di.html): 2022-02-14
- [I’m not remotely an enemy of Russia or Putin](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/im_not_remotely.html): 2022-02-17
- [The slave would rise in rebellion](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/tthe_slave_woul.html): 2022-02-19
- [Consensus reality generators](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/consensus_reali.html): 2022-02-20
- [These are the buds of the socialist spring](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/these_are_the_b.html): 2022-02-22
- [Are we the world, are we the children?](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/02/are_we_the_worl.html): 2022-02-28
- [Vainglory](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/03/vainglory.html): 2022-03-02
- [Slavs don’t grok articles in English](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/03/slavs_dont_grok.html): 2022-03-02
- [Killing’s come a long way since 1945](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/03/killings_come_a.html): 2022-03-20
- [Dear Powers-that-Be](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/dear_powersthat.html): 2022-05-01
- [Free speech isn’t equitable speech](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/free_speech_isn.html): 2022-05-03
- [Decriminalize crime](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/decriminalize_c.html): 2022-05-05
- [Ukraine brainwashing](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/ukraine_brainwa.html): 2022-05-05
- [Populist democracy versus constitutional republic](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/populist_democr.html): 2022-05-07
- [Sacrifice for the collective](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/sacrifice_for_t.html): 2022-05-09
- [Chest seals in your go bag](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/chest_seals_in.html): 2022-05-10
- [Disinformation Governance Board](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/disinformation.html): 2022-05-11
- [Gun crimes always drive gun sales in America](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/gun_crimes_alwa.html): 2022-05-29
- [Twenty percent of Americans trust their government](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/twenty_percent.html): 2022-06-02
- [Total retribution](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/total_retributi.html): 2022-06-02
- [Ashli Babbitt](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/ashli_babbitt.html): 2022-06-09
- [America’s fragile democracy](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/americas_fragil.html): 2022-06-09
- [Fighting firearms with firearms](https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/fighting_firear.html): 2022-06-11

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