Rise of the Moderates?
It may be that the nation is surprised when an unknown congressman suddenly becomes Speaker…Expect a moderate surprise attack.
Category: Feature
Recipe: Inauthentic Steak Tacos
I hope you enjoy the inauthentic authentic looking steak tacos as much as we did
Don’t Blame Vaccines for Damar Hamlin’s Collapse
We don’t know the full story about Damar Hamlin’s tragic collapse, but there is no evidence that it was related to a COVID-19 vaccine.
Trump’s Tax Returns Don’t Contain What So Many Hoped
I don’t feel sorry for Trump. No one did him an injustice. But, still, the committee made a mistake
It’s Warhammer 40,000 Time
Warhammer’s 40,000 saga is coming to a small screen near you via Henry Cavill, late of Superman and the Witcher, together with Amazon Prime
Sunday Morning, 2023! “Chess Story” by Stefan Zweig
The first thing that strikes me about “Chess Story,” the last piece of fiction Zweig wrote, is how well-constructed it is
The World Is Yours, Or At Least The Size of It Is
For all the debate, discussion, and derision social media gets for good, bad, and admittedly sometimes truly ugly, it is a tool.
POETS Day! It’s Yeats Again!
Yeats wondered how the world could recover from a World War that drowned its innocence…but we survived. The center held.
Grief and Gratitude
I spent Thanksgiving—then Christmas—in the company of my family, forced almost against my will to love and be loved. And it was marvelous.
2022: The Year in Science
Just to put it all in one place, so we can appreciate how much happened this year, here are the ten biggest science stories of the year.
The Best To You Each Morning: The Cereal In America Story
The inclusion of a bowl of cereal doused with milk in the breakfast ritual as practiced in the West is of relatively recent vintage.
My Top 25 Films Of 2022: One Critic’s Best Of The Year List
We’re talking about top 25 films of 2022 that stood out from a field of nearly three hundred that I watched
Boxing Day Recipe: Lamb Stuffed Cabbage Rolls In Tomato Sauce
The following recipe for lamb stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato sauce is one of those. Takes 30 minutes out of your non-pressed Boxing Day
Christmas Morning! “The Tenants of Moonbloom” by Edward Lewis Wallant
A rollicking posthumous novel with a very Jewish punchline for its parable: Yes, everyone is kind of a schmuck. But we’re required to love them anyway. And isn’t that funny?
Tales of Yuletides Past
Late December, especially the 25th day of that final month, has been an important time throughout history, especially in the Western world.
A Spoiler-Filled Review of Avatar: The Way of Water
I think James Cameron’s Avatar is the worst movie I’ve ever sat through. The issues with Avatar: The Way of Water? Legion.
Home for Christmas: A Portrait
The very notion of “home for the holidays” betrays the transience of it. It loops around on itself, as to say, there is a home and there is not home
POETS Day! Clement Clarke Moore
This week’s featured poem by Clement Clarke Moore, “The Pig and The Rooster,” keeping in mind that as far as I know no one is disputing he wrote this one
Video Throughput: Alien Twin Spin
This week, you get a twin spin: I look at science in the movie Alien and its sequel Aliens. Is the xenomorph possible? Do reactors really explode like that?
