Thursday Thoughput: Fixing Spacecraft Edition
Fixing spacecraft is astonishing work: debugging a fifty-year-old computer at a distance of 15 billion miles.
The Content of our Discontent
11 2020 “False Trump Electors” and 7 Others Indicted in Arizona
Arizona indicted 18 individuals involved in the “fake electors” scheme during the 2020 presidential election aftermath.
Free Speech, But No Freedom to Harass
Free speech has limits. The limit is often when one person’s freedom runs up against someone else’s rights.
The Shifting Politics of Abortion
The gripping hand with Trump and the politics of abortion is that he does not really care. And abortion will always be legal for the rich.
The Month in Theaters March 2024
I saw fourteen movies in theaters in the month of March, as well as five movies otherwise, for a total of nineteen reviews.
The Trump Tax
If you like Trump for his economic policies, you might want to spend some time reexamining the policies of his first term and how they damaged the economy.
Good Morning! Are You An Amateur?
“I may only be a simple little golf player but thank hevings I still have my amateur standing.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Psychonauts is on sale!
The basic idea was that you were Razputin (“Raz” to his buddies) and you snuck into a summer camp for gifted psychics.
On Cleaning Out My Writing Intake
If a culture war happens online and you don’t get sucked into the algorithmic vortex of it, did it make a sound?
POETS Day! Kingsley Amis with a Touch of Philip Larkin
I think Kingsley Amis is also showing us something sh**** and then showing us something he thinks is sh****ier. He’s making a point.
Thursday Throughput: Video Triple Play
I’m cooking up a throughput linkorama for next week. But for now, here’s some videos I’ve dropped recently.
The Zinky Boys: Russia in Afghanistan and Ukraine
Putin’s government is as morally bankrupt as the Soviet communists who sent young Russians off to die for a lie in the 1980s.
