Day: May 19, 2023

POETS Day! Anne Sexton

Ben Sears May 19, 2023

Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton all spent time in McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, in...

The Days of Flags 2023-05-19 TDoRS C5136 (05.20.17)

The Days of Flags

Clare Briggs May 19, 2023

Patriotism as the USA enters The Great War

Jaybird in reply to Koz on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHow you feeling about the whole "Republicans are the party of fiscal sanity" thing given the tariffs…
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaYeah, you’re right. I didn’t say “Trump is not even lying, he’s going to disappoint you, he’s not go…
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHas he shown up recently? I'm still here, barely. In fact, I just submitted a guest post which hopef…
Jaybird on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?The benchmark that makes sense to me: Can it beat Pokemon? 10-year-olds can beat Pokemon.
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Apparently, a guy went down to the address and, when the lady who lives there came out of his house,…
Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Members of my extended family are homeless or headed there. They make terrible choices because of so…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The extent to which that thought is comforting compared to "the government is feckless if not malici…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One of the interesting things about homelessness is that we don't want to spend resources on people…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Eh, it's fixing the problems you can talk about instead of the problems you can't talk about. And, a…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Having a philosophy background, I'm sure you've thought a lot about language and thought (the house…