Will Millennials Ever See Social Security?
The future of Social Security is an open question. Will it still be around when millennials need it?
Monthly Archive: May 2019
Wednesday Writs for May 15
This week’s Wednesday Writs include the backstory of Miranda, history making beauty queens, good news for ninjas and hippies, dumb criminals, and more.
Tech Tuesday 05/14/19 – Back From Vacation Edition.
Ordinary Times’s weekely science and tech feature with links to stories on water, thrust vectoring, plastics that actually recycle, NASA fraud, and evolution has it’s unintelligent moments.
A Beautiful Thing On The Internet: Jon Bois’s “The Bob Emergency”
Jon Bois tells the incredible story of Bob Gibson. For good measure, he tells the stories of a bunch of other Bobs too.
A Song of Tolling Bells and War Crimes
So Your Favorite Character Is A Nuremburg Defendant: Game of Thrones Season 8 and Command Responsibility
Elizabeth Warren Is Rooting for Daenerys Targaryen in ‘Game of Thrones’
“We’ve got five episodes to find out if the people can truly break their chains, destroy the wheel, and rise up together to win,” the candidate wrote in an op-ed
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 65-77)
Okay. Welcome to the Ordinary Bookclub. We’re reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Our kickoff post is here, we review Chapters 1-5 here, we review chapters 6-15 here, we review chapters 16-25...
Sunday Morning! “Pasolini” by Enzo Siciliano
I read a biography of the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini that gets into the weeds of political and literary debates so deep as to lose sight of his art.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Crash Pandas
A game about a team of street-racing raccoons for when you can’t play your normal game.
The King of the Monsters
Sixty-Five Years Later, Godzilla Continues To Be A Symbol For Everything From Humanity’s Sins To A Force Of Nature To Even Box Office Superhero.
Fagin, Bigotry, and “Cancel Culture”
Put simply, Fagin is one of the most loathsome and unredeemable creatures I have ever come across in fiction.
Oh, the Humanity
My son cannot understand why anyone cared if the Hindenburg blew up because he is eleven years old and thinks the world is an anime.
