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Kevin M. Levin: “Why Lindsey Graham Abandoned the Confederate Flag” kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/why-lin… “What the Confederate battle flag’s slow exit from South Carolina reveals about his entire career”
Pigeon coming in the door (photo from Wikimedia) 13 July 2026 There’s a famous problem that humans get wrong almost all the time but pigeons get right. It’s called the Monty Hall Problem, named after the TV host, co-creator and...
London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They’re more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They’re always eating out, and when they’re at home they don’t cook the way they did ten years ago....
A pair of shoes, a shirt,a known article of clothingand a memory that serves you wellin your future life. I watched something pure happen.I saw a father and his son at the beachyesterday.They were looking through the shallowscollecting...
John Stossel's latest column is eye-opening for three reasons, perhaps the least being the astounding safety record of Waymo's driverless cars:Waymo claims its cars are 10 times safer than human-driven ones. I wouldn't believe that if...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
In Kidz Fun Art, I recently increased the resolution of images by two, letting young artists draw at much higher quality (important for my 10 year old who was hitting the limits of the program, she’s amazing). However this introduced an...
Clear and cool—the first morning of a dry high. A hummingbird visits the orange jewelweed below the porch. A pungent, camphor-like odor makes me think of blossoming yarrow, but I finally decide instead it’s coming from the black locust...
Stefan Zweifel shares how he reorganized his dotfiles into a minimal setup, split private config into a separate repo, and streamlined setup and Brewfile syncing with a few small scripts. Read more
Basement dehumidifiers seem to be treated as disposable appliances. You buy one, run it for a year or two, and then replace it when it stops pulling water out of the air. I was hoping to escape that cycle when I bought an AlorAir...
There’s something about knowledge and understanding that is fascinating. With all the technology at our disposal, knowledge is readily available. But understanding is not. I think of math classes in school where I felt this the most....
I've been posting my stories and poems to this blog since February 2024. My latest posts have titles like The Book of Temples Chapter 22 and The Moonskull Verses Canto 43. These lengthy tales might be a little overwhelming to new...
I’ve posted the monumental totem of N. E. Galloway before (shown also) but I have also learned he.was quite the woodcarver. Here’s a carving he made from a tree adorned with a snake and owls! I’m not sure the size, but appears to be a...
text by Bridgit PhillipsDo your own research:Strange online behaviors often mirror patterns long present offline, amplified by digital platforms. Phenomena like Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) faking, while a bizarre and excessive...
I have completed 58 circuits around Sol. I share the exact birthday with actor Robert Gant from “Queer As Folk”. I wish him a happy birthday every year. I’m probably not the only one that shares the exact same birthday as him. I’ve been...