Monthly Archive: December 2020
Saturday Morning Gaming: Darkest Dungeon
Darkest Dungeon is a dungeon diving RPG that has an interesting twist. This is a game that has a different idea about “difficulty” than most.
Wonder Woman 1984: A Great Throwback in More Ways Than One
Wonder Woman 1984 benefits from this creative freedom to follow what worked (Wonder Woman) rather than what didn’t (the broader DCEU).
Christmas Spin: Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, and Run Rudolph Run
Ho Ho Ho! A special Christmas spin of a song popularized by the father of rock-n-roll and covered by many many others.
Weekend Plans Post: ‘Twas the night before Christmas
Silver linings in a year without a whole lotta tinsel
Thursday Throughput: Proxima Cen Edition
What happened here was that the team got a signal that can’t be easily ruled out as interference. That doesn’t mean it’s aliens.
New Pardons From President Trump Include Manafort, Stone, and Kushner
The main roster for the Dinesh D’Souza All-Stars gets their end-of-the-year call ups as President Trump issues 26 more pardons
Paging Dr. Kübler-Ross
Burt Likko compares the bizarre subversion-of-democracy fantasies of Trump supporters with the actual law, and is unimpressed.
Filler ‘er Up and Take a Little Off the Top
I realize this must sound like I’m reading the script of American Graffiti, but this truly was my life as an adolescent.
President Trump Uses Veto on National Defense Authorization Act
Citing FCC “Section 230” repel & changing of Confederate-named facilities among other reasons, President Trump vetoed the NDAA:
TextSpark AI leaves Beta
From Twitter: Recent TextSpark updates: We’re officially out of beta! Project metadata has been restored as a feature, and you can now select subscription tiers for up to 10,000/words per month with your playful...
Wednesday Writs: Christmas Vacation Edition
Christmas on trial in Ganulin v. US is Case of the Week for a reason, and the reason is the opening to Judge Delott’s opinion.
President Trump Demands More Cowbell
Now, you didn’t think President Trump was just going to get all normal and sign the covid relief/omnibus spending package, did you?
Just Before Christmas
“They ast me to write to old Sandy, an’ say he’ll bring me nice things if I’m good.”