POETS Day! Walter de la Mare
elow is Walter de la Mare’s most anthologized, which I take to mean most popular but what the hell do I know, poem, “The Listeners.”
Monthly Archive: September 2022
Weekend Plans Post: Use Your Time Off
I was an idiot. I failed to use my vacation. Don’t be like me. Take some time off. Decompress.
From Reason Magazine: Public Schools Experiencing ‘White Flight’
Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of “equity,” people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.
Thursday Throughput: COVID Over Edition
So is Biden right? Is COVID over? Well, y’all know me. You know that the answer to that is inevitably going be … kinda.
Utah’s Nuclear Football
Should the Utah Utes football team lose she would “detonate the nuclear reactor that is located in the University of Utah causing a mass destruction.”
From the Washington Post: 7 ways a recession could be good for you financially
Hey, a recession isn’t all bad news. Here are seven silver linings.
Iranian Protests: Third Time’s the Charm?
Will Iranian protests end in the same way, with the regime still empowered after crushing a nascent democratic movement? Or will this time be different?
Patriarch Kirill Can Go To Hell
Bootlicking, enabling, theological terrorists like Patriarch Kirill deserve all the unfiltered invective mortal man can direct at a person.
The Looming Double Failure of Putin’s Mobilization
For Russia, mobilization will make both the military and social/political/propaganda aspects of the Ukrainian war worse, not better.
DART Closes In
If this asteroid were headed for Earth, DART would have to hit it about 500 years in advance for such a velocity correction to make it miss.
Sunday! “Assembling a Black Counter Culture” by DeForrest Brown Jr.
The rich and detailed story of “Assembling a Black Counter Culture” and how Detroit gave the world techno music and an alternative vision of the future to escape the exhausted white one.
Ron DeSantis and the Hollow Victory of Outrage
Ron DeSantis is particularly good at stoking liberal outrage. He has shown skill at creating news headlines and taking symbolic acts that rile up the online left.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Gloomhaven is this week’s Free Game from the Epic Game Store
Seriously. Gloomhaven is this week’s Free Game from the Epic Game Store.
