Tagged: people

May 17, 2021

Real America Is As It Is Made

The entire genre of “Real America” is predicated upon the rural, urgent, rough, and weird being more real than the polished humans we present

Culture / In The Web / Linky / Politics

May 14, 2021

Linky Friday: People, or Lies, Slander, and Calumny Edition

Linky Friday is the long-running tradition at Ordinary Times to bring reading from people across the web and around the world to discuss.

Coronavirus / Culture / Feature

December 11, 2020

Things in Solitude

You can’t make sense of bad decisions people have been making in 2020 without considering how society has destroyed our sense of community.

!Top Shelf! / Classic / Culture / Feature / ICYMI / Philosophy / Politics

July 13, 2020

There Are No Bad People

Bigotry was not a life sentence, it was a decision people made, and so it was possible to choose something different. You could choose to change.

!Top Shelf! / Classic / Crime / Culture / Feature / ICYMI / Media / Philosophy

June 30, 2020

There Are No Better People

Superheroes aren’t real. All we have is people, and trading one group for another is not and never will be a cure for systemic flaws

!Top Shelf! / Coronavirus / Culture / Economics / Feature / Health

March 27, 2020

The Free Market Case for Staying the Eff Home

If you want to talk the talk of conservatism when times are good, surely you gotta walk the walk when they aren’t, doncha?

!Top Shelf! / Books / Culture / Feature / Meta / Mindless Diversions / Sunday

February 23, 2020

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.

In The Web

July 27, 2018

Linky Friday is Ordinary Time’s Friday tradition of compiling links from around the world and across the web straight to you. This week in Linky Friday: Worldwide, Media, People, Nations, and Culture, soundtracked with an around the world theme. Read and share.