Linky Friday: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures, Or Something
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Fortunately, Ordinary Times’ Friday tradition of links to read, share, and discuss is here for you.
Category: In The Web
Thursday Throughput: Io Edition
The Era of Classical Astronomy — from Galileo through Newton — was full of these kind of elegant experiments to measure the shape and size of the solar system, the distance to the nearest stars and the speed of light
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Biden Our Time, Isolated, And A Greek Tragedy of Fried Cheese
Joe Biden semi-isolates in a one-on-one debate, paying attention to local government during a national crisis, a food abomination, and please don’t get Grandma killed in this edition of Harsh Your Mellow Monday
Linky Friday: Cancel Everything, Cease and Desist, Shut It Shut It Down Edition
Linky Friday is not cancelled, so Ordinary Times’ end of week tradition of bringing you stories from around the world and across the web is here for you to read, share, and discuss.
Linky Friday: Widespread Panic and Other Minor Inconveniences
Linky Friday: Widespread Panic and Other Minor Inconveniences finishes off this first week of March by trying to keep it’s head while others around it are losing theirs.
Linky Friday: Toil and Trouble
Finish the week off discussing and debating stories from across the street and around the world. Ordinary Times’ Linky Friday: Toil and Trouble for you to read and share.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Landslides Are Best Left for Songs, and Other Fleeting Hopes
Landslides that aren’t coming for Sanders or Trump, The Des Moines Register, backside of the Super Bowl, Rashida Tlaib, and the lessons of Falkirk.
Linky Friday: The Beginning of the Middle of the End of the Beginning
Linky Friday tries to steer you straight to end a week full of beginnings, endings, and everything in the middle. Or is it starting the weekend? Either way.
Throwback Thursday: Primaries of Ordinary Times Past
On the cusp of the 2020 primaries starting in Iowa on Monday, Throwback Thursday takes a look at some writing about primaries past from the pages of Ordinary Times
Ordinary World: To Hell in a Handbasket Edition
Your Ordinary World with links to stories on the deficit, impeachment, CNN, The Washington Post, Coronavirus, what you might have missed in Ordinary Times, and more.
Linky Friday: Don’t Call it a Comeback…
For the uninitiated, Linky Friday was long a tradition here at Ordinary Times. So don’t call it a comeback, Linky Friday’s been here for years…
Fun with Math: Normal Distribution Edition
See what you thinking, and discuss with the Commentareum.
“I’m Against…” vs. “I’m For…” And a Lesson in Signaling Sharp Contrasts
Discussing Berny Belvedere’s piece on how “I’m against…” is often winning out over “I’m for…” and candidates that don’t adjust get left behind.
Wednesday Writs: War on Christmas Edition
Thus, the Court reasons that the public celebration of the Christmas Holiday is a historical observance, not a religious one.
Thursday Throughput: I Just Didn’t Want It To Be True Edition
I was peripherally involved in this research, which detected some of the highest energy photons every seen from a gamma-ray burst.
Wednesday Writs: The Case of the Too Short Fish
This week’s packed Wednesday Writs include not real big fish, the ACLU siding with the NRA, those poor Sacklers, a big change to the LSAT, the worst kind of dumb criminal, faux legal Facebook disclaimers, and more.
Wednesday Writs for 9/11: Willie Francis is Executed, Twice
Writs are back this week, with the story of a prisoner who was executed twice, an ill-tempered judge throwing an ironic fit and another who appoints himself prosecutor, space law, the NFL lawsuit fumbles, dumb criminals and more.
Wednesday Writs for 8/28
Your Wednesday Writs this week include a soap opera of a SCOTUS case, a record breaking opioid settlement, space crime, a creative judge, a dumb criminal and more.
Wednesday Writs for 8/21
It’s time for Wednesday Writs ft recent history of the Commerce Clause, which is much more important than it sounds, RGP eulogizing JPS, terrible lawyers giving terrible advice, the Angry Bagel Guy, a “Serial” update and more.
Thursday Throughput for 8/1/19
I’m not one of the “we have 12 years to save the planet” doomsayers. But it does feel like we are approaching an inflection point. We will survive; but our options for how we will survive are narrowing rapidly.
