Music Monday: The Roland S-1 Tweak Synth
Yes, they were tacky. Yes, they attempted to grant unto the venerable keyboard the rock star charisma of the guitar. But hear me out…
Category: Feature
A Literal Bloodbath?
Tariff ‘splainers don’t get clicks, but breathless articles about how Trump openly threatens violence do. We get the media coverage that we deserve.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Nobody Saves The World
If you’ve been wanting a fun Metroidvania ARPG with cute graphics, interesting puzzles, and fun combat, this is one of those games
Fani Willis Survives, But Not Unscathed
Which is worse? Engaging in an extramarital affair and lying about it or trying to steal an election and lying about it?
Throughput: Excited Delirium Edition
There’s been a concerted effort to pressure medical examiners to diagnose excited delirium when the real cause of death was positional asphyxia.
POETS Day! Paul Laurence Dunbar
It was during Paul Laurence Dunbar’s time as an elevator operator that he put together “Oak and Ivy.” A lot of his sales went to regular elevator customers.
Weekend Plans Post: Molasses Baked Beans and Laparoscopy
A baked beans recipe and back to the hospital. As such, this weekend will be spent eating beans and recovering.
Hail to the Champs
The Joe Biden and Donald Trump rematch is going to happen, but people definitely wanted it despite protestations to the contrary.
Meatballs with Sausages: Breaking the Code of Silence
This post is about making meatballs, and how grandmothers are duplicitous, self-interested, conniving, and not to be trusted.
Kacey Musgraves Does What Taylor Swift Hasn’t: Grow Up
In the gentlest way possible and with all due humility, this celebrity stoner tells us, “Get off your ass and stop dulling your senses.”
Are The Oscars Becoming “Cool” Again?
The complaints about the Oscars not connecting with the regular person off the street have been becoming more and more faint
Ineffective Activism: Don’t Be An Asshole
Being an asshole is not going to garner sympathy. In fact, being a destructive asshole can end up garnering support for the other side.
The New Right-Wing Leftists
The omnipotent moral busybodies may have the nation’s best interests at heart, but Americans are proud and individualistic people.
Music Monday: The Magnetic North’s Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North
This week’s Music Monday topic: The Magnetic North’s 2012 debut album Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a beautiful homage to the archipelago
The State of The Union: Biden’s Barn Burner
Biden’s performance last night was everything the GOP said he couldn’t be…energetic, engaging, personable, [insert your own adjective here]
POETS Day! The Poetry of Ninth Grade English, Revisited
William Butler Yeats, R.S. Gwynn, Ellen Kay, and other selections from ninth grade along with an admonition to not get on my lawn
Nikki Haley Is Out and the GOP Migration Begins
An old Southern saying opines “In the South, we don’t hide crazy. We put it on display.” That’s the course GOP voters have chosen for their party.
Opposing Ranked Choice Voting Is Opposing Representative Democracy
Ranked Choice Voting ought to be the minimum for a representative democracy. Standing against RCV is a stand against a better democracy.
The SCOTUS Colorado Decision Was Not Unexpected
We now have more clarity on what would trigger the bans on holding office in Section 3…they must come from the federal level.
I Blame Gerald Ford
Ford’s willful naivete opened the door to our current state of play, where TFG dares America on a daily basis to reign him in.
