Those handful of Ordinary Gentle-readers who have followed me from my old site may recall my occasional posts publicizing the late South African reggae star Lucky Dube. So if some of this sounds familiar to you,...
….is the promise of globalization. Just like coat factories that moved from the States to Eastern Europe and then off to China, and from there…to where? Factories pop up for just a few years...
Nattavudh Powdthavee is completely off the mark. Having children is not like winning the lottery. The happiness we experience from our children is lasting, constant, omnipresent, and far deeper than any material gain. It...
I may have respect for Andrew McCarthy, despite my many disagreements with his legal positions, but why are we waxing poetic about Judge Robert Bork? That he is the conservative benchmark for interpreting the Constitution...
I’m sure many of you have had your fill of new perspectives on the financial crisis and the conditions that led to it; I thought I had, too. But I find the piece “Infinite...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I think it puts a message in the chat, though it's been a while since I added someone to a chat, som…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25One has to wonder why we would _ever_ detain someone even if they did flatly say they were going to…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25A wise lord? on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Mike Waltz is married. The woman to whom he is married has a sister. This sister is married to Scott…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25As the supreme deity of the Zoroastrians, he's a good bit more than "a pretty wise guy." If you beli… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25In defense of the Democrats in power at the time: it's 2023 and coming up on the most important elec…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25The talk about not wanting to "bail out Europe again" was a pretty big clue they were dilettantes. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25In 2023, I listened to a discussion/interview with a well-known American philosopher and a couple ph… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Okay, that's good to know. When I'm in your group chat and you add a third party, is there a ding an…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Team Blue waited until the last second to notice their guy was unable to talk and then replaced him…
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