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- Tuesday Tones October 14, 2025
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- “Meh, who cares, halftime is when you use the bathroom and get more food anyway” October 8, 2025
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- The Hunter, again October 6, 2025
- Tabular Enclosification October 3, 2025
- Something for Thursday October 2, 2025
- Seeing an old friend for the first time in a while October 1, 2025
- Tuesday Tones September 30, 2025
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UPDATE: Sadly, Mr. Drum has died. If fact, he had already passed when I wrote this. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum is very ill. Back in the hey-day of blogging–oh, from roughly 2003 to 2009 or so, at which time Facebook … Continue reading
Keeping up with the Joneses, and keeping ahead of the Smiths (a repost)
This is a repost of something I wrote nine years ago, occasioned by someone on social media opining how terrible it is for the burger-flippers of the world to be getting a raise someplace while the “first responders” aren’t paid … Continue reading
Seasons and their Reasons
It occurs to me that for most holidays, we always end up hearing a lot about how important it is to remember WHY the holiday exists. We’ve got multiple holidays now where we’re supposed to meditate on Freedom and The … Continue reading
On Festivals and the Dating Thereof
NOTE: I’ve had this in drafts for-EVER (I started this post in August 2022!), and I think it’s now time to go ahead and finish it, because it’s that time of year again. Not the time of year indicated in … Continue reading
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Tabular Enclosification
It’s time to close out some of the tabs I’ve had open for a bit. :: This first grouping is about the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, which I have been reluctant to address in any major way, and I … Continue reading →