The Content of our Discontent
Some Speed! Some Speed!
In which Clare Briggs gives a shoutout to Frank King’s “Motorcycle Mike”.
(But, really, it’s about baseball.)
Saturday Morning Gaming: Goodbye to Monolith Studios
Monolith Studios is shutting down. This one *HURTS*.
POETS Day! Talkin’ Chaucer at the Godsibbing Fense
Chaucer is assumed to have died in 1400…I say assumed, because there were no dates on his grave at Westminster until someone added them in 1566.
Kelly Pool — The Pill at Home
What’s the worst that could happen from a lie?
What’s the worst that could happen from the truth?
In Times Without Norms, All Laws Fall Silent
Laws have no power over us, except for the power we give them. And they can be easy to work around for those possessing the shamelessness.
97th Oscars Projections: And The Oscar Goes To…
For the first time since at least 2021, we’re heading into Oscar night with a genuine debate over which film will take home the biggest prize of them all.
Em’s Top Five True Crime Podcast Recommendations
Unfortunately, because of the genre’s popularity, there is a lot of junk out there. Here are my top five true crime podcast recommendations
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Black Knight 2000
If you’ve never heard the song, you’re in for a treat.
POETS Day! William Makepeace Thackeray
Financially and domestically, promise and hope were dashed. The world did not unfold as hoped. He wrote several poems along the same lines
Musk vs Gore
DOGE? No, I’m jumping in the Wayback Machine and talking about the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR)
Series! Recap of World Series of the 1920s
Why not go back to the Roaring 20s, the age of flappers, bathtub gin, and the Babe? It was 100 years ago now, but that hardly matters in baseball.
