97th Oscars Projections: The Post Fall Festivals Outlook For The Best Picture Race
The year in film is indeed weak, and the campaign for the biggest prize in the industry is indeed wide-open as we enter mid-October.
Category: Feature
Lone Star Rising
We haven’t had a top-two state competitive in a competitive election since 1976, which was an era with a much larger electoral college map with many more moving parts.
The COVID-Flu Cocktail: A New Fall Tradition
The statistics incontrovertibly show that COVID vaccines are effective at preventing premature death and serious illness from COVID -19.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Black Myth Wukong first impressions
If you liked Elden Ring and wish it were more like God of War? Get this game. Get this game *NOW*.
POETS Day! Mirrors and Robert Louis Stevenson
That’s it. I just wanted to say “I don’t like change” so it had a double meaning. It’s not even a joke, really.
Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It for The OTHER Thanksgiving (And Silent Hill 2)
So, Sunday is the sister’s, Saturday is D&D, and Friday night is going to be Silent Hill 2.
Wargaming An Election Crisis
If we choose to accept only those election results that we like, that choice will take us down a long, dark, violent road.
The Unavoidable Truth About Iran
Iran is clearly losing a war where it and its proxies are the belligerents.
What About Abortion?
The insanity of voting for an authoritarian who tears down our constitutional guardrails on the flimsy premise that “at least he doesn’t support abortion.”
Painting With Sound: Beetlecrab Audio’s Tempera
There is nothing I know that gives a person this kind or amount of creative control over sound so intuitively.
Of Conspiracy Theories and Helene
There’s a conspiracy theory making the rounds that goes thusly: The Biden Administration has, at best, slow walked the recovery efforts to Hurricane Helene’s swath of destruction or, at worst, actively obstructed those efforts...
POETS Day! WM Praed and an Irishman
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, a respected wit and politician who died young, tuberculosis at thirty-six. There’s still a Praed Society at Eton
Port Strikes and Tariff Wars
Even if the longshoremen get their wishes and freeze out automated systems in the short term, automation will be implemented eventually.
Throughput: Migrant Stats Edition
Unfortunately, it takes me a thousand words to explain a lie that can get hundreds of thousands of retweets before I’ve had breakfast.
Let’s face it: We knew that Harris would win back in August
Calm down. Take a deep breath. Seriously. You’ll be able to say that you saw this coming if you weren’t currently so busy fooling yourself.
Let’s face it: We knew that Trump would win back in August
The direction that things were going before the disastrous debate in June continued to go on… it’s just that, when Biden was replaced by his Vice-President, the media changed the subject.
Pete Rose and the Limitations of Hustle
As a kid I loved baseball and Pete Rose. I still love baseball, but evidence demands a verdict, and I long ago had a reckoning over Pete Rose.
The Race to Control the Senate
It seems likely that Republicans will gain outright control of the Senate regardless of who becomes president.
POETS Day! John Crowe Ransom
I like Tillinghast’s phrase: “major minor poet.” Ransom’s precise word choice and easy formalism are things of wonder.
Weekend Plans Post: Commandaria
There are stories in Hesiod that talk about the type of grapes that make Commandaria and so this type of wine dates back at least to 800 B.C.
