Day: August 16, 2024

Linky Friday: The Content of Our Discontent

OT Editors August 16, 2024

Some of the news that is fit to link and discuss in the Ordinary Times Friday tradition...

POETS Day! Useful Lines and a Favorite from Pound

Ben Sears August 16, 2024

There was a time when the falconer was the height of killing technology. We had projectiles, but...

Throughput: MPox Redux Edition MPox

Throughput: MPox Redux Edition

Michael Siegel August 16, 2024

So, are we about to go into COVID-style lockdowns? Is MPox going to be The Big One?...

Asking a Little Peach To Your Party 2024-08-16 TDoRS C5212 (08.06.16)

Asking a Little Peach To Your Party

Clare Briggs August 16, 2024

Days of Real Sport

Dark Matter in reply to North on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collectioneviscerated the Dept. of Education’s staffing and thus have eviscerated said Dept’s ability to colle…
LeeEsq in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" seems to be some…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan CollectionNot giving loans to people who we're pretty sure won't be able to pay them back is a good thing, not…
Jaybird on Less Than a Decade Prior to the MPAAI'm guessing that, maybe, this was "The Actor's Children". Here, check this out: That's kind of clos…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Where are the people asking where are the free-speech absolutists now now?
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collection"That's why you shouldn't give them a mortgage's worth of debt without the ability to pay it off aft…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Cornell cancels R&B singer Kehlani Parrish for anti-Semitism: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23…
LeeEsq in reply to InMD on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collection"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
InMD in reply to North on US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan CollectionI wouldn't say I'm surprised exactly but the failure and/or inability to think things through at a b…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Wife of Abrego Garcia has to move into a safe house because DHS posted her address online: https://u…