An Afternoon With Longfellow
“If some one don’t keep us apart when school is out, there’ll be a fight!”
Monthly Archive: January 2022
Weekend Plans Post: No Longer Batching It Rock And Roll Weekend
This weekend will be spent doing laundry, coming down from the insanity of work this week, and, yes, listening to some rock and or roll
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Attempts To Withhold January 6th Materials
With only Justice Thomas registering dissent, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Archives could release materials the January 6th committee requested on former President Trump and that executive privilege did not apply.
Video Throughput: Don’t Look Up Review By A Scientist
I’m going over the science of Don’t Look Up, and much of what I talk about is also relevant to Deep Impact and Armageddon
Filibuster Rule Change For Voting Rights Legislation Fails 52-48 in Senate
A much-discusses and doomed-to-fail vote to change the filibuster rule regarding voting rights legislation failed in the US Senate Wednesday night 52-48
More Subpoenas From January 6th Committee
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn, and lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell are the latest names that won’t be cooperating with the January 6th committee
Good Guys Versus Bad Guys and Being a Conscientious Objector in the Culture Wars
“But who were the good guys, Mama?” We all need that moment, but in my opinion as his mother, it was best he came to that question himself.
Video: Jericho Hill Turning Down The Noise On Economic News and Headlines
OT contributor and economist Jericho Hill joined Andrew Donaldson on Heard Tell to talk through economic news and headlines, housing issues, and how to better discern the economy from news media. This clip is...
Jason Schreier reports that the WSJ reports that Microsoft is buying Activision/Blizzard
Microsoft appears to be buying Activision/Blizzard
Video: OT’s Andrew Donaldson on The Young Turks “Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey”
Andrew Donaldson, managing editor of Ordinary Times magazine, enters The Bullpen to discuss the split in the GOP over COVID vaccinations.
Video: Texas Synagogue Hostage Jeffrey Cohen Talks Anti-Semitism
Powerful insight from Jeffrey Cohen, one of the hostages in the Texas synagogue attack who talks about what the terrorist said abouts Jews that are all too common tropes in wider society
Senate To Take Up Voting Rights Packages, But Still Short of Votes Needed
The focus of the returning U.S. Senate will be on voting rights starting today, but Majority Leader Schumer is still publicly without the votes need to pass any of the several piece of legislation under consideration.
5th Circuit Ruling Keeps Six Week Abortion Ban Effective In Texas: Read It For Yourself
The Fifth Circuit has left the six week abortion ban in Texas in effect in a ruling that also transfers the case to the Texas Supreme Court, the latest in a series of legal fights over the controversial law.
We Should Unfix the College Football Postseason: A Rebuttal
The fear among my stamp of college football fans is that the tournament awards the game and not the campaign, and makes everything worse
History and Literature’s Complaint Against a Modern: A J.K Rowling Poem
Would Steinbeck’s Grapes have passed this Rowling Test? Or George & Lenny’s discov’ry that the best Laid plans of mice & men gang aft agley?
