America this morning, thinking about itself. Well, good morning, probably. This turned out to be a super-duper bad time to decide not to doom scroll. I gave up my resolution in the dark hours and did it anyway. The problem is that I do not watch television and don’t have a working radio and so am stuck, like the rest of the world, going from one news site to another, but who am I kidding, mostly Twitter. In spite of... Read more
So anyway, I don’t know how to blog without scrolling endlessly through the internet. I have now remembered why it is that I began that bad habit in the first place–for fodder, for stuff to say. I don’t know how to write if I’m not reacting to something, which is a serious drag. In my desperation, therefore, I did go peek at Twitter yesterday because I heard there was lots of freaking out about that prayer in Congress, the one... Read more
I wasn’t looking for more things to be irritated about–especially with my new resolution to stay as much as possible away from the internet–but somehow I ran across this anyway. It’s an old but ridiculous list of words dictionary dot com didn’t think we should say in 2020. You remember that long lost year where so many things were foolish and unpleasant? Well, if I had seen this then, I would have known it was going to be bad, but... Read more
It’s a cold, snowy day here in Bing, and I have to wake all the way up and face my life, which is going to be painful. Nevertheless, we pushed ourselves to do a reasonably lengthed podcast about Matt reading yet another book about Hitler, how I am trying to make peace with the way people talk now, what we liked about our Christmas holiday, and many more heaped up apologies about Nailed It the Kindle Edition (SORRY, still trying... Read more
I’m still enjoying my last day off and so here is my recent article for the Christian Research Insititute on Virtue Signalling. “‘This century…I say the next 80 years, I think is gonna be the defining period for humanity. Twenty-first century, make humanity great again, the coming of age of humanity,” says Eddy Izzard, pointing a rosy but sharp, well-manicured nail into the camera. He is clad in a somber, dark, feminine suit, and his coiffure — always a perfect... Read more
Well, I have been enjoying my blogging break—sleeping till 7 and everything—but I can’t pass up this opportunity to wish 2020 an enthusiastic and delighted good-bye. After praying for its demise all these months, I must celebrate this auspicious moment of finally getting what I want. Join me in a virtual glass of something warm and a slice of cheese! We made it…well, most of us did… Also, I have a variety of odds and ends that I wanted to... Read more
In the spirit of futility and a striving after the wind, I bought a new planner for the new year. I was allowed to put any title on it for no extra money, so I did. It’s very beautiful (must more than the picture indicates). It invited me, in the very front, to make a “mind map,” whatever that is, so I carefully copied this: Before him stood the Tree, his Tree, finished. If you could say that of a... Read more
Good morning all! It’s the start of a busy day for me. I’ve got to do All The Things and hopefully not get buried under work or snow. Nevertheless, we did a nice short holiday podcast where we talk about nothing except that I, like Hitler, do like cake and champagne. Hope it makes your holiday all sparkly and bright! I don’t have a lot of links, sorry to say. I haven’t had time to read the internet to my... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm this morning. This was a fun thread—a Muslim anthropologically observes his roommates coping with Christmas (and gets into the spirit of the thing himself). They decorate a tree, and work on the menu, and argue about whether or not you can stuff your own stocking. As usual, many tweeters came on to correct this person for his inarguably prescient reflection on the way Americans approach this holiday, plus some obligatory accusations of anti-Semitism, and the... Read more
Well, here it is, Friday already. Friday with 41 inches of snow outside my window. So that’s pretty epic. Let’s see, are there any takes? One I remembered- too late for my exposition on why children (especially babies) are terrible oppressors, that one of my own children noticed this important fact a while ago. What she said was prescient and I will record it here for your benefit: Marigold (not her real name): Aren’t babies really prideful? Like cats. ‘Cause... Read more
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