Inhabiting Wang Wei
A fraught attempt to transduce an eighth century Chinese poem into passable English.
Monthly Archive: September 2018
Linky Friday: Hurricane Florence Edition
Linky Friday is Ordinary Times’ Friday tradition of bringing you various links from across the web and around the world. This week, a special Hurricane Florence edition with music interludes and plenty to read, share, and discuss.
Weekend!
Some weeks you wake up on Friday and yell “wait! I’m not ready!”
Some weeks you wake up on Tuesday and ask “wait, is it Friday yet?”
Hurricane Florence (Live Thread)
Hurricane Florence is an unfolding storm slamming into the North Carolina coast. This thread will allow for ongoing updates about the storm.
Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst: Hurricane Florence
I drove a few hundred miles to trade my two youngest children for a generator, gasoline, and 3 Walmart bag of batteries and various illumination devices. Though it might sound like the plot to the next Mad Max movie, I deemed it a responsible parenting decision.
To Buy Or Not To Buy
Should I buy a car from Larry’s Automobiles, a dealer known colloquially as Larry’s Lemons?
Social Science and Fiction Part 3: Politics at the Gaming Table
Many Americans consider it boorish to bring up politics or religion outside of sanctioned times and places. One simply does not talk politics at the dinner table. It won’t do.
But the gaming table is not the dinner table. Ideally, you play games with friends. Or if your close friends don’t share your hobbies, then at least your regular group is acquainted well enough that political differences of opinion are unimportant enough to keep you from playing together. Or if that isn’t the case, then at the very least you all retain enough courtesy to stow your partisan inclinations while the game is underway.
Something #Basta This Way Comes
If the left see Avenatti busy about the work of the resistance while elected officials only talk about it, with little to show for it, the opening for an outsider might be an Avenatti-sized hole in 2020.
UPDATE: WV Supreme Court Impeachment Proceedings
Word came today that an agreement has apparently been reached between the Senate presiding over the impeachment trial and two of the justices, Margaret Workman and Beth Walker. The two judges have purportedly agreed to be censured, but will keep their seats on West Virginia’s high court.
How To Survive An Encounter With The Police
Amber Guyger shot Botham Jean to death. She survived her subsequent encounters with the police.
How Drug Court is Helping to Save a Generation
Drug court cannot solve the epidemic we face. No one thing can. But as we continue to lose an entire generation to the scourge of opiates and meth, something is better than nothing
