The 2024 Best Picture Oscar Race: The Initial Spring Outlook
Its not too early to start looking at what could compete for the biggest prize at the 96th Academy Awards which will take place around this time next year and honor this year in film.
Monthly Archive: March 2023
The GOP Is No Longer The Party of Individual Freedom or Liberty
If the GOP truly value freedom and liberty then multi-cultural liberal democracy is still the best way to achieve it
Sunday Morning! “Another Country” by James Baldwin
In what feels like four novels in one, James Baldwin covers everything he knows about how internalized social opprobrium can warp our capacity to love. It’s… a lot.
POETS Day! Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens appears to have a need for religion even though he’s rejected it. There’s an absence he feels.
Ron DeSantis May Be Out Before He’s In
Two incidents that underscore the difficulty that Ron DeSantis – or any Republican – is going to have knocking off Donald Trump.
Why Don’t Americans Trust Republicans with Entitlements?
The problem that the Republican Party faces is the problem faced by any party trying to change their stance on an unpopular issue.
Throughput: Politicization Edition
When you attempt to merge science and politics, the results is not to scientize the politics but to politicize the science
Pork Chops alla Milanese
The Italians have cotoletta alla Milanese and the Austrians have Wiener schnitzel. So let’s make Pork Chops alla Milanese
Bad News for Trump But No Arrest (Yet)
The Former Guy has not been indicted, did not do a perp walk, and there is still no indication from anyone other than Trump himself that any such action is imminent.
“Working-Class Wannabes” and the Language of Sports
Sports fans have a tendency to code-switch into the appropriate sports dialect when talking about the various sports people play or consume.
