Day: June 19, 2023

Juneteenth is a True American Holiday

David Thornton June 19, 2023

From Texas, the celebration of Juneteenth spread across the South. As blacks migrated north, seeking more freedom...

The Good Place, Ethics 101, and Spoilers, Spoilers, Spoilers

Jaybird June 19, 2023

Seriously, this essay will contain spoilers for The Good Place (now streaming on Netflix).

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Open Mic for the week of 6/19/2023

Jaybird June 19, 2023

Happy Juneteenth National Independence Day!

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025That means people expect them not to go full out. They're using the USA as the example on how things…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025None of the wars you invoked involve developed democracies. Israel is a develop democracy and is hel…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025it’s war logic hasn’t applied since World War II. Russia v Ukraine (or Russia v anyone). ISIS v anyo…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The it's war logic hasn't applied since World War II. Humanity, especially in the democracies, is su…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationWell, we had ours at the Air Force Academy Field House and there were all of these rules to get on t…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationOh... yeah. I can see that. When I was a kid out in the sticks, my school had about 25ish kids in my…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationThey were doing this when I was at UMD (Go Terps!) because every graduating class has something like…
Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationSeems cruel. Not like they talk directly about *my* daughter for 2hrs on each day. Plus, after a cou…
Brandon Isleib in reply to DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticIn my songwriting teens and twenties, I'd end up falling in love with a weird rhyme (or rhyme scheme…
DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticAs Keillor wrote, the sort of thing that soon slumps to such rhymes as ‘sibylline/porcupine’ and ‘ce…