Skip to content

Ordinary Times

A place of politics, culture, and discourse

Primary Menu
  • Log-in
  • Welcome!
    • Masthead
    • Inquiries
    • Guest Posting Policy
    • About Feature Images
  • Community
    • Commentareum
    • State of the Discussion (beta)
    • Commenting Policy
    • The 500kth Ordinary Comment
    • The 750kth Ordinary Comment
  • Follow Us
    • On Facebook
    • On Twitter
    • Entries RSS
    • Comments RSS
  • Friends
    • Arc Digital
    • Outside the Beltway
    • Splice Today
    • Elections Daily
    • Liberal Currents
    • The Bulwark
    • Conservative Pathways
    • Misfits Politics
    • American Creation
  • Blog Archives
    • Blinded Trials
    • Mindless Diversions
    • Bookclubs!
    • Not a Potted Plant
    • Dutch Courage
    • Journeys in Alterity
    • The 49th
    • Jubilee
    • Safe Depository
SCOTUS Grants Reprieve to ‘Slut Shamed’ Woman on Oklahoma’s Death Row Oklahoma woman on Death Row

SCOTUS Grants Reprieve to ‘Slut Shamed’ Woman on Oklahoma’s Death Row

Em Carpenter January 27, 2025
The legitimate, relevant evidence against Brenda Andrew is strong without having to resort to draping a scarlet...
Read More Read more about SCOTUS Grants Reprieve to ‘Slut Shamed’ Woman on Oklahoma’s Death Row
The Colombia Gambit The Colombia gambit

The Colombia Gambit

Michael Siegel January 27, 2025
It's only been a week and this cadre of fools is already confirming what we knew: that...
Read More Read more about The Colombia Gambit
Another Solitaire Fiend solitare

Another Solitaire Fiend

Clare Briggs January 26, 2025
The secret to Christmas is also the secret to Comedy.
Read More Read more about Another Solitaire Fiend
As Long as the World Goes Round awww

As Long as the World Goes Round

Clare Briggs January 25, 2025
In his defense, he only just got settled in.
Read More Read more about As Long as the World Goes Round
Saturday Morning Gaming: Menace from the Deep menace

Saturday Morning Gaming: Menace from the Deep

Jaybird January 25, 2025
With slowly dawning horror, I realized that Menace from the Deep was a pretty good Slay the...
Read More Read more about Saturday Morning Gaming: Menace from the Deep
Skin-nay’s Folks are Moving Away bye

Skin-nay’s Folks are Moving Away

Clare Briggs January 24, 2025
The End of an Era
Read More Read more about Skin-nay’s Folks are Moving Away
POETS Day! Poems Found While Reading an Essay by Anthony Hecht Essay by Anthony Hecht

POETS Day! Poems Found While Reading an Essay by Anthony Hecht

Ben Sears January 24, 2025
I found “Beauty Extoll’d” as an alternate title so I put it in brackets, but Hecht says...
Read More Read more about POETS Day! Poems Found While Reading an Essay by Anthony Hecht
Weekend Plans Post: Was Last Year This Cold? suntime

Weekend Plans Post: Was Last Year This Cold?

Jaybird January 24, 2025
Good golly, it's *COLD* This weekend should be a little less cold before cold snap #2 comes...
Read More Read more about Weekend Plans Post: Was Last Year This Cold?
Mr. Goodfellow Returns anotherone

Mr. Goodfellow Returns

Clare Briggs January 23, 2025
More meditations on Happiness
Read More Read more about Mr. Goodfellow Returns
Trump Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Lawlessness Trump lawlessness

Trump Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Lawlessness

David Thornton January 23, 2025
Donald Trump is already making the same mistake that Biden made in assuming that a narrow win...
Read More Read more about Trump Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Lawlessness
“There’s a Lot of Sickness in Town” sickness

“There’s a Lot of Sickness in Town”

Clare Briggs January 22, 2025
When a feller needs a friend
Read More Read more about “There’s a Lot of Sickness in Town”
The Truth Is All Right If You Can Get Away With It blackeye

The Truth Is All Right If You Can Get Away With It

Clare Briggs January 21, 2025
You should see the other guy.
Read More Read more about The Truth Is All Right If You Can Get Away With It
Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive Orders Trump executive orders

Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive Orders

OT Editors January 21, 2025
As promised, the second Donald Trump administration featured a cavalcade of executive orders on a wide swath...
Read More Read more about Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive Orders
Lady McBiden, Pelosi First of Her Name, and the Struggles of American Royalty the Struggles of American Royalty

Lady McBiden, Pelosi First of Her Name, and the Struggles of American Royalty

Bryan O'Nolan January 21, 2025
Inflated sense of importance is rife among our social, political and economic so-called betters and the press...
Read More Read more about Lady McBiden, Pelosi First of Her Name, and the Struggles of American Royalty
Our Busy Burg dixie

Our Busy Burg

Clare Briggs January 20, 2025
Sometimes your boss wastes time.
Read More Read more about Our Busy Burg
Ordinary Times Watchalong: The Inauguration of Donald Trump Untitled

Ordinary Times Watchalong: The Inauguration of Donald Trump

OT Editors January 20, 2025
Watch and comment to the festivities as America once again does pomp and circumstance around the peaceful...
Read More Read more about Ordinary Times Watchalong: The Inauguration of Donald Trump
Mister Baseball Bob Uecker

Mister Baseball

Mike Schilling January 20, 2025
There is no doubt that Bob Uecker was a very funny man. It's hard to count the...
Read More Read more about Mister Baseball
97th Oscars Projections: Final Nomination Predictions MMR Headline Graphics (2)

97th Oscars Projections: Final Nomination Predictions

Luis A. Mendez January 20, 2025
Luis Mendez gives his final nomination predictions for ALL 23 categories, a total of 120 nominations in...
Read More Read more about 97th Oscars Projections: Final Nomination Predictions
From TikTok To ERA, Biden Leaves Taxpayers A Mess Biden leaves Taxpayers a mess

From TikTok To ERA, Biden Leaves Taxpayers A Mess

Michael Siegel January 20, 2025
Biden's performative nonsense on TikTok "ban" and Equal Rights Amendment will create years of angry debate, protests,...
Read More Read more about From TikTok To ERA, Biden Leaves Taxpayers A Mess
The Solitaire Fiend cards

The Solitaire Fiend

Clare Briggs January 19, 2025
"Holy cow, your little brother has a Super Nintendo?!?", but in 1911
Read More Read more about The Solitaire Fiend

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 … 1,021 Next

Recent Comments

  • Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025In 2024, an additional 38 GWh of grid-scale battery storage was deployed in the US. Almost all of th…
  • Fish on Saturday Morning Gaming: Death Roads TournamentI'm back to playing Baldur's Gate 3. We started talking about it at work yesterday so I decided to l…
  • LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Alawites and Christians are being massacred in Syria by Islamists. This is why Israeli Jews aren't u…
  • DensityDuck in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Which means it'll happen before the day is out. ***** Kid doesn't realize that the Democrat Party is…
  • DensityDuck in reply to David TC on The Department of Good Things" I have no idea what you’re even trying to smuggle past security because liquid is merely ‘a state…
  • DensityDuck in reply to David TC on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Target set up assessments that the government alleged ‘disproportionately screened out black, Asian…
  • David TC in reply to DensityDuck on The Department of Good Thingsa criticism of “you’re not strict enough to actually find all the things” is not an argument against…
  • Philip H in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Tossing him at this point would be the second stupidest thing the DNC has done in the last year.
  • InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Credit where it's due, I think he handled that quite well. Might be too little too late for him but…
  • Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025David Hogg fans should know that HE HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT: "Today, the DNC took its first steps t…

Devcat Reports

Devcat image

Problems persist. We appreciate your patience.

More Comments

  • North in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • CJColucci in reply to DensityDuck on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
  • Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • DensityDuck in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Dark Matter in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • DensityDuck in reply to Derek S on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • DensityDuck in reply to CJColucci on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
  • Derek S on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Derek S on Saturday Morning Gaming: Death Roads Tournament
  • LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex
  • Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
May 2025
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Apr    

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

You may have missed

word

Somebody is Always Taking the Joy out of Life

Clare Briggs May 12, 2025
dreamerphone

Danny Dreamer and those Newfangled Speaking Telegraph Machines

Clare Briggs May 10, 2025
Death Roads Tournament

Saturday Morning Gaming: Death Roads Tournament

Jaybird May 10, 2025 2
2025-05-09 TDoRS C5134 (05.18.13)

The End of the Bonfire

Clare Briggs May 9, 2025

Recent Comments

  • Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Fish on Saturday Morning Gaming: Death Roads Tournament

Recent Comments

  • Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Fish on Saturday Morning Gaming: Death Roads Tournament
  • LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • DensityDuck in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • DensityDuck in reply to David TC on The Department of Good Things

Ordinary Twitter

Tweets by Ordinarians

Recent Comments

  • DensityDuck in reply to Derek S on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • DensityDuck in reply to CJColucci on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
  • Derek S on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Derek S on Saturday Morning Gaming: Death Roads Tournament
  • LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex
  • Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Saul Degraw on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
  • CJColucci in reply to DensityDuck on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
  • Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
  • Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025
Copyright © All rights reserved. | MoreNews by AF themes.