Saturday Morning Gaming: Wandering through Pierre the Maze Detective
Remember the maze books at the Scholastic Book Fair when you were a kid? Well, Pierre the Maze Detective is a video game version of the books you remember.
Monthly Archive: November 2021
Outcry Over Missing Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai Grows
3x Olympian and a 2x Grand Slam champion Peng Shuai has gone missing after accusing the former Chinese vice premier of sexual assault on social media before it was censored and she disappeared.
Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty On All Counts
Kyle Rittenhouse has been found not guilty on all five counts he faced for the shooting of three people.
Kevin McCarthy Feels The Pain, Fails To Refrain
Normally, to get this much “na-na-na-na”-ing from a McCarthy you’d have to put the 10 hour YouTube version of “Hey Jude” on.
OT Podcast: Heard Tell On Prager Comments Comparing AIDS/HIV in 80s to Covid-19
instead of just reacting, we wanted to turn down the noise on this and talk to someone who lived through the AIDS crisis and can speak from personal experience
Things I Learned From Binging Siskel And Ebert
Siskel And Ebert was nothing groundbreaking, but for a kid who was limited in what movies he could watch and when, it was great to get the scoop from these guys.
POETS Day! The Tay Bridge Disaster
I’m going to do something awful to you. I’m going to give you William McGonagall’s The Tay Bridge Disaster. Have you ever listened to Bjork?
Weekend Plans Post: Extrovert Overload
After a couple of years of quarantine, it’s good to see friends again.
Video Throughput: An Astronomer Reacts to Dune
I take off my critic hat and put on my scientist hat to see how the science of Dune holds up. And…it’s not too bad.
Joe Biden Needs to Be The Next Democratic Nominee
If the goal is still to deny Donald Trump a second term, and Joe Biden is the only person who has proven himself capable of that task.
The Maximum MacGuffin of Red Notice
It works, as long as you don’t take your movie watching any more seriously than Red Notice takes itself. Which, thankfully, it never does.
The “QAnon Shaman” Gets 41 Months In Prison
The “QAnon Shaman” of January 6th infamy has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for his felony guilty plea.
Executive Dictatorship: A Look At Some Of The Most Egregious EO’s
So what really are executive orders? Simply a way for a president to use dictatorial style power and usurp Congressional authority
OT Contributor Podcast: How Democracy Works
The latest The Old Gods Podcast about how democracy works, how it can break down, and even some disagreement from your hosts about what our priorities should be.
The Neverending Story: Build Back Better Legislative Edition
Meanwhile…the “Build Back Better” budget reconciliation package is awaiting a CBO score and a vote, which is coming…sometime.
Congress Will Vote On Censure, Stripping of Committees of Representative Paul Gosar
Congress will vote on resolutions of censure and to strip committee assignments from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) after he posted a anime video depicting violence against well known Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and President Biden.
