The Content of our Discontent
Wargaming An Election Crisis
If we choose to accept only those election results that we like, that choice will take us down a long, dark, violent road.
Hurricane Milton: Live Stream, Updates, and Discussion
Hurricane Milton threatens to be one of the most powerful storms to hit Florida in a century, and right on the heels of Helene
The Unavoidable Truth About Iran
Iran is clearly losing a war where it and its proxies are the belligerents.
What About Abortion?
The insanity of voting for an authoritarian who tears down our constitutional guardrails on the flimsy premise that “at least he doesn’t support abortion.”
Painting With Sound: Beetlecrab Audio’s Tempera
There is nothing I know that gives a person this kind or amount of creative control over sound so intuitively.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Dragged Back to Gloomhaven
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
Of Conspiracy Theories and Helene
There’s a conspiracy theory making the rounds that goes thusly: The Biden Administration has, at best, slow walked the recovery efforts to Hurricane Helene’s swath of destruction or, at worst, actively obstructed those efforts...
POETS Day! WM Praed and an Irishman
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, a respected wit and politician who died young, tuberculosis at thirty-six. There’s still a Praed Society at Eton
Port Strikes and Tariff Wars
Even if the longshoremen get their wishes and freeze out automated systems in the short term, automation will be implemented eventually.
Throughput: Migrant Stats Edition
Unfortunately, it takes me a thousand words to explain a lie that can get hundreds of thousands of retweets before I’ve had breakfast.
Let’s face it: We knew that Harris would win back in August
Calm down. Take a deep breath. Seriously. You’ll be able to say that you saw this coming if you weren’t currently so busy fooling yourself.
