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The Reckoning and a Reckless Thought Experiment
I’m supposed to want justice, but I’m not sure what justice will mean for me. I have been wronged…But I have also wronged others.
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
So much is happening right now that it’s hard to pay attention to any one particular thing, particularly my implausible escapades.
To the Place I Belong
By this point, I am afraid that the absurdity of all this had become too much to bear.
Country Roads, Take Me Home
If you choose to rely upon Google, Verizon, and/or Samsung products as an aid to road navigation, do yourself a favor and verify the route using traditional methods.
Pity Parler
These former Twitter brands have found an audience receptive to their bloviating on Parler. Wonderful. And also, how boring.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Answer the Question Edition
Joe Biden, Charlamagne tha God, The Breakfast Club, Kayleigh McEnany, Jonah Goldberg, Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, and Bernie Sanders supporters in this edition of Harsh Your Mellow Monday
Sunday Morning! “Four Souls” by Louise Erdrich
A book about an Ojibwe woman’s path of revenge- following a longer digression about “representation” in fiction.
The Debate over Ethics and Charity: Making it Rain on Skid Row Holiday Edition
The age old debate gets a new video to go with it. Charitable display? Dehumanizing look-at-me moment? Both? What say you, Comentareum?
Clare Briggs: The Chicago Years
Introducing Danny Dreamer and other works from the Chicago American.
Vanity, Thy Name is Anonymous
A ineffective coward sally forths into the media to make sure you know how bravely they are accomplishing nothing
The Salt Lake Tribune Officially Becomes 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
The “nonprofit” theory of how to save legacy media is about to get a real world test case.
Eating Pizza Outside In The Snow
Symposium: We ate the pizza with “Ooohs!” and “Aaaahs!” as we took bites that burned our mouth, all while snow hit us in the face, blowing sideways.
Sunday Morning! “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa
On a Japanese novel and film that deal in different ways with the social pressure to forget.
Hey, wanna read something?
Anybody want to read a manuscript-in-progress? Wait! Don’t run away just yet!
System Maintenance at Midnight EST (Update: Again Tonight)
Website will remain operational but will be slow. The process should last around four hours. Click here for pictures of kitty cats.
Sunday Morning! J.G. Ballard’s Shopping Maul
Rereading J.G. Ballard’s final novel about consumers who turn to absentminded fascism when shopping loses its appeal.
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