When Called Out in Politics or Comedy, Always Escalate
Donald Trump’s candidacy is a referendum on our current system of choosing candidates based on which ones make the fewest verbal missteps.
Category: Not a Potted Plant
Kim Davis Freed
The suckiest Labor Day weekend Kim Davis can remember will turn out to have been only fifteen minutes long in the cultural zeitgeist.
The Wager
Pascal wrote, “Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same,” so I recommend a reading this with a drink or two.
Sex, Computers, & Auxiliary Mothers
When is an adult’s presence with a child or amongst children cause for alarm?
Une Vignette Fantastique du Kentucky
An indulgence in what would be an act of political courage and principle, if it were to actually take place, which we all know it will not.
Speaking of the Speechwriter
Will and Tod recently read Barton Swaim’s The Speechwriter and are planning to talk about it soon. You should consider reading it yourself.
Linky Friday #129: Scary Things
This week: Trump, Freedom, Danger, Prison, Courts, Courtship, and Bears!
Skipping The Summer Reading
This essay is about reading gay porn before class. And it resurrects an Ideological Outrage Of The Day from 2012. And a graphic novel. And striking out romantically. And Richard Dawkins.
The Seuss-Berenst#in Deathmatch
A story of alternate universes involving one where Dr Seuss is bad and the Berenstein Bears are misspelled.
Linky Friday #127: Crime, Coin, & Sesame Street
This week: Headlines, Crime, Economics, Sesame Street, and Russia!
The Persistence of Myth
In which Presidential peccadilloes, parables of patrimony, and persuasive proof pool to peer into a prosaic psyche.
Cooler Than Lukewarm
Looking for suggestions in the decidedly unlikely event of lunch with a member of Congress.
An Experiment In Minimizing
Ice cream. It’s all that.
But Burt Likko can’t enjoy it because his wallet’s fat.
Linky Friday #126: USE! USE!
This Week: Useful things, Economy, Education, Europe, and the United States
