1+ week, 2+ day ago   (800+ words) By the mid-2010s, girls as young as thirteen and fourteen were wearing more and more makeup. We were contouring our cheeks, wearing fake eyelashes for school, and overlining our lips to look as though we had fillers. Girls started looking the…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (794+ words) Lord. It’s six years ago today that Mr. She died. It took me a few years to travel comfortably onwards, and yet, here I am. Many of you on this site helped me through the worst, and I am forever…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (230+ words) History does not repeat. But it rhymes often enough that at some point you would think someone might look up from the chanting and notice. One of the stranger…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (341+ words) Kings and Queens covers every monarch since William the Bastard with a historically accurate and easy-to-memorize little poem. Pat’s copy of the book was given to her by her parents at Christmas in 1936, and covers every monarch from William through…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (340+ words) ricochet.com You know, when you’re young you think you always will be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Today’s quote comes from the man who portrayed both…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (815+ words) It qualifies as national news, given the mid-census gerrymanders we’re seeing across the country this week – Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, and God knows where else. I won’t go there since I’ve already written about it. My reader is welcome to revisit…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (427+ words) A little over a week ago, I was visiting a city in a different state from my own. As I walked by a restaurant, I noticed it had posted a very large “No ICE allowed” sign at the front door....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (512+ words) As though advocates of large government are going to listen to me, but I’ll make the argument anyway. Here, I am intentionally ignoring the conservative arguments against large government and taxation in general. Several politicians have in recent months and…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (594+ words) The post title is a quote from George Mallory, English mountaineer, who disappeared–along with his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine–on his attempt to summit Everest in June of 1924, almost three decades before the first confirmed summiting by New Zealander…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (354+ words) The above-titled case, aka the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision, was at its heart deceitful. Flatly disingenuous. Based on false statements and a knowingly inaccurate characterization of the Obamacare legislation, perpetrated by the Chief Justice and his supporters on the Court…...