Campaign Scratchpad: Known Unknowns
Making the outcome a known unknown to anyone that isn’t very motivated in their thinking. There’s a lot of motivated thinking out there, though.
Category: Feature
Saturday Morning Gaming: Killing a White Dragon
That’s my first dragon since the 80s. And it might have been the best night of D&D in my whole life.
Hamas, Anyar Sinwar, and The Grand Delusion
The lay of the land in a world where America can’t control other nations who feel a need to act in their own best interest.
On the Dodgers, Postseason Baseball, and Growing Up
The playoffs become Groundhog’s Day, and it breeds numbness and apathy. But this year, it feels different.
POETS Day! Why Is Tom Bombadil?
If you correctly type “semillon” the first result is the Wikipedia page for Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Good for Tolkien, but bad for Sauternes and trimmed sauvignon blanc.
Panda Diplomacy
Many see China wanting to expand its regional influence. By force, if necessary. And what does the U. S. get for its mounting troubles? Two lousy pandas.
Megalopolis Is Terrible And Everyone Should See It
When does an artist lose his touch? Is it when he exhausts his creative impulses, or is it when those around him stop telling him “no,” and hubris consumes his output?
The Unexpected Ethnic Problems of the 2024 Election
It may seem counterintuitive that Trump could be gaining support among minorities yet still losing the electoral advantage, but the reason is multifaceted.
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.
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
