Monthly Archive: October 2023

weight

The Weight of Society

Obesity is sometimes referred to by a social contagion, but the implications of that are often not fully appreciated.

party of no

The Party of No

The problem here is that one side doesn’t want to get along. One side wants to hold its breath until it gets its way or it will take its ball and go home.

House GOP

So, Now What House GOP?

Day 20 with no Speaker of the House starts off with Republicans not only far away from electing a new one, but with nine candidates – and maybe more – to sort through.

Fourteeners

POETS Day! Fourteeners

“Fourteeners” is what you call iambic heptameter when it’s at home. It’s a fourteen-syllable poetic line divvied up into seven feet of paired syllables, unstressed followed by stressed.