Day: January 31, 2021

On Wealth and Politics

Will Truman January 31, 2021

Does wealth make people more economically conservative?

Sunday Morning! Finishing ‘In Search of Lost Time’ Vol. 2. by: Marcel Proust

Rufus F. January 31, 2021

As we finish Marcel Proust's "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" our hero heads to...

The Archers and The Sacred Tree: A Fable Fiction

The Archers and The Sacred Tree: A Fable

Bryan O'Nolan January 31, 2021

Once upon a time, a very long time ago when there were wolves in the forests and...

The Chairman of the House Committee 2021-01-31 Golf 5167 Chairman

The Chairman of the House Committee

Clare Briggs January 31, 2021

"You'll make a great chairman. Congratulations"

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025That means people expect them not to go full out. They're using the USA as the example on how things…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025None of the wars you invoked involve developed democracies. Israel is a develop democracy and is hel…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025it’s war logic hasn’t applied since World War II. Russia v Ukraine (or Russia v anyone). ISIS v anyo…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The it's war logic hasn't applied since World War II. Humanity, especially in the democracies, is su…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationWell, we had ours at the Air Force Academy Field House and there were all of these rules to get on t…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationOh... yeah. I can see that. When I was a kid out in the sticks, my school had about 25ish kids in my…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationThey were doing this when I was at UMD (Go Terps!) because every graduating class has something like…
Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationSeems cruel. Not like they talk directly about *my* daughter for 2hrs on each day. Plus, after a cou…
Brandon Isleib in reply to DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticIn my songwriting teens and twenties, I'd end up falling in love with a weird rhyme (or rhyme scheme…
DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticAs Keillor wrote, the sort of thing that soon slumps to such rhymes as ‘sibylline/porcupine’ and ‘ce…