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Five (Plus) Songs Whenever: Election Day
Yup. I voted this morning. In-person, at the town hall in my teeny-tiny, rural Vermont town. There’s a lot I can say about this election, but most of what I want to say has already been said, mu...
From the Atlantic: "Why Quitting Is Underrated"
And grit is not always a virtue. By Annie Duke, published 9/27/2022 Siobhan O’Keeffe, one of tens of thousands of runners in the 2019 London Marathon, noticed that her ankle started hurting four ...
Yet Another Piece on How American Health "Care" is Awful
I went to the dentist two weeks ago, for the first time in over a year. What did the appointment include? Well, since my last dentist decided to only send over the records from 2014, claiming tha...
From AP: "'I Cannot Mourn': Former colonies conflicted over the queen"
By CARA ANNA, DANICA COTO and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Sept. 11, 2022 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Upon taking the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world, many of them...
"Quiet Quitting"? You Mean, Doing the Job I'm Paid To Do?
You’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting” lately and wondered either (a) why people are doing it, the lazy bastards, and (b) if it’s actually “quitting”. I’m not even going to define the employer...
From The Atlantic: "The New Era of Political Violence is Here"
The danger is not organized civil war but individual Americans with deep resentments and delusions. By Tom Nichols A Deepening Void Civil war is among the many terms we now use too easily. The Am...
By Farah Yousry, published August 10th, 2022 Early on a Monday morning, a group of young obstetrics and gynecology residents gathered for a daily meeting. The young doctors, dressed in blue scrub...
From Politico: "Why expensive gasoline is here to stay "
“Future presidents and administrations are going to be absolutely bedeviled by high gasoline prices. By Ben Lefebvre 07/26/2022 04:30 AM EDT The political pain that high gasoline prices have infl...
They're not "red" states...
They’re “states oppressed by a GOP government through gerrymandering, redlining, redistricting, and the shutting-down of polling places in rural/poor/Black and brown communities, all to make it h...
George Carlin: "Pro-Life is Anti-Woman"
He originally did this bit in 1996. Pray tell, why is it even more relevant today? “Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to fuck...
