Sunday Halloween Morning! Seconds (1966)
Seconds is an existential horror movie scarier than any B-movie slasher- they can only kill you once; this film suggests you can be killed so surely long before that physical death is only an afterthought.
Monthly Archive: October 2021
En Route Podcast: The “Utah Compromise” Between Religious Conservatives and LGBTQ
Dennis Sanders talked to Rev. Marian Edmonds Allen about how the LGBTQ community and religious conservatives in Utah were able to balance religious liberty and LGBTQ rights on the latest En Route Podcast
SCOTUS Rejects Religious Exemption From Mandatory Vaccinations: Read It For Yourself
The Supreme Court has refused to override mandatory vaccination requirements, this time in Maine for healthcare workers seeking “religious exemption”
How Do You Define Intelligence?
A recurring subject is the nature of intelligence. What makes a person smart? These are people that consider and argue.
Stingy Jack: A Jack-O-Lantern Origin Story
This is a retelling of an Irish folktale. The modern Jack-O-Lantern may very well be derived from this tale, though there are other possible origins
Saturday Morning Gaming: Gloomhaven (Steam Edition)
If you played Gloomhaven for a half-dozen sessions before the pandemic shut you down and you’ve been thinking about this game non-stop ever since? JEEZ LOUISE PICK THIS GAME UP RIGHT NOW.
Old Gods Podcast: The International Order
From OT contributor Birch Smith and Dan Visnovsky the latest episode of The Old Gods Podcast on the international order.
The Enduring Puzzle of the Midterm Elections
Parties in charge have tried practically everything they can imagine to fight against the prevailing midterm trend
2021 Oscars Projections: Post Fall Film Festivals Edition
2021 Oscars Projections: Where I think the races are with months of more smooching, screenings, premiere weekends, and press leaks to go…
Weekend Plans Post: The Last Piggybank
When friends in my circle started having kids, I thought that a great present would be a piggybank. That was a long time ago.
A Victim, By Any Other Name
My takeaway here is that it probably doesn’t matter much how the prosecutor refers to the alleged victims of Kyle Rittenhouse
Thursday Throughput: Tensor Calculus Edition
The intricacies of tensor calculus equations for General Relativity. If you check out equation, you’ll find…no, wait…don’t go away! This is cool.
They’ll Think Themselves Victims: Scenes From An Oregon Attorney’s Office
In which pro-vaccination employment attorney Burt Likko is repeatedly asked to help people avoid their employers’ vaccination mandates.
Going to the Dogs Over Anthony Fauci
I am in an odd and lonely place on Anthony Fauci. I am not in Camp Saint Fauci, but neither am I in Camp Adolph Fauci
Tribulation: An Apocalypse of Liberty University’s Own Making
The catalyst to this present tribulation was of Liberty University’s own making, design, and choice. And there is no rapture coming.
