Monthly Archive: June 2022
Weekend Plans Post: Saying Goodbye
We’re cleaning house. We found an old box that hadn’t been opened since 2003. With VCR Tapes. We opened it.
Thursday Throughput: Cretaceous Edition – That Means Dinosaurs
What enraptures children about dinosaurs? Maybe it is, as Dave Barry said, that dinosaurs never get told to go to bed or eat their veggies.
The Bridge To Reality
We are responding to reality personally. This is unhealthy and dangerous, as demonstrated by many a Florida Man.
Art in a Time of Burning
And then as now, arenas of culture — theater, poetry, music, the visual arts — are sites of conflict in a roiling contest for power.
On Sweeping Change And The Importance of Trains
If you are going to make a bold sweeping change without making sure the trains also run on time, you can look forward to not being re-elected if not recalled.
The Careening Cars and Multiple Nostalgias of Conservatives
“What do conservatives want to conserve?” An old election video may provide some answers – and more questions.
Briefly, On The Universal Sucktitude of Painkillers
Painkillers…what a stupid term for medically trying to trick your brain into thinking something that is not is so.
Justice for Ashli Babbitt
While her death is mainly being used to distract from the horror of what went on that day, I am sympathetic to Ashli Babbitt and her family.
Socialism is Anti-Choice and Anti-Life
There are many other ways to help poor families in America aside from the pro-corporate-pseudo-socialism Democrats peddle.
Sunday Morning! “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
In recent weeks, Colson Whitehead has become the writer who leaves me thinking “Man, how does he get his novels to go like that?!”
Senate Reaches “Framework” Deal on Gun Legislation
A working group of US Senators from both parties have announced a framework agreement on gun legislation in response to recent mass shootings.
Both Parties DON’T Do The Same Things: Michigan Governor’s Race Edition
Is it any wonder then that a highly placed Republican, running for governor in a swing state, would be involved in this sort of thing?
Saturday Morning Gaming: Yahtzee
Yesterday, I taught a friend Yahtzee. He moved from “what’s the big deal?” to “oh no” somewhere around “three of a kind”.
