Thursday Throughput: Laser Implosion Edition
The running joke is fusion power is always twenty years away. I would say that we are now to the point where fusion power is ten years away.
The Content of our Discontent
Something Debt Ceiling Threatening This Way Comes
The debt ceiling fight is about paying bills already incurred, for which federal agencies have the authority granted in federal law to cut checks.
Confidence Man Sam Bankman-Fried Ends Media Tour Due To Arrest
Welp, that should be the end of the “ah shucks, can’t believe that happened to me, sorry ’bout that” media tour Sam Bankman-Fried has been on
WWJD about Christian Nationalism?
Christian Nationalism in America isn’t the first time Christianity has been hijacked for nefarious political ends. It also won’t be the last.
Marxist – Leninist – Trumpist?
The New Right is looking a hell of a lot like the Old Left – in the worst possible ways.
Sunday Morning! “The Door” by Magda Szabó
They always judge you. On Hungarian writer Magda Szabó’s haunting novel about a housekeeper who loves and persecutes her employer in equal measure.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Pentiment First Impressions
Becoming a Medieval Master in a game made by Obsidian.
POETS Day! Roy Campbell
Sometimes I feel bad for people who don’t speak English and are stuck calling their master lyricists words like poeta, digter, imbongi, or tusisolo that don’t form tidy acronyms encouraging their better hedonist angels....
Alexa, Find A New Name and Mission
Raise a glass to our friends Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Bixby, and… uhh.. Google Assistant.
Weekend Plans Post: The Preparation for Monday
“One of life’s most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life’s least appreciated pleasures is defecation.”
–Mark Twain
Dick Cavett Revisited
When watching reruns of The Dick Cavett Show, you can literally hear New York City slip further into its decades’ long decline.
