..thatās me No I donāt mean Iām head ānā shoulders above my peers; I mean I donāt HAVE any. Iād say our closest peers are usually our college friends, right? They are of an age, and of a socioeconomic and educational level, with us. Where are these women now? How do they look? Have they … Continue reading Peerless
Author: Hypatia
Dear Things
Sitting here in the living room of my beloved childhood home, I count 13 objects just on the mantelpiece alone. I didnāt put all of them there; theyāve been there since I was a kid. I didnāt buy any of them. There they are: 6 bronze figures, a cigarette holder made from a tiger skull, … Continue reading Dear Things
Quick: how long since New Yearās Day 2025?
Iād make it 36 days. Not 36 years or months. DAYS. And yet, when JD gave his great pro-free speech oration in Munich this weekā Munich, which had a few days previously suffered a mass murder by an Afghan Muslimā how many Americans remembered Shamsud Din Jabbar? Heās the guy who massacred a buncha people … Continue reading Quick: how long since New Yearās Day 2025?
Coup-coup!
DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT ATTEMPTS TO TAKE OVER THE US GOVERNMENT! Joy Reid called Trumpās efforts to examine and streamline government agencies a ācoupā. How do they get away with this shit? Do they HEAR themselves? Trump is so right to act with lightning speed. He doesnāt have long before the Leviathan recovers and mounts a … Continue reading Coup-coup!
January 17 three years on
Snizzling
ā¦..thatās why itās been doing all day here, snow as fine as a drizzle of rain. . I look out and it looks like fog, but itās waaay too cold for fog, only about 13 F. If this would go on for about 3 days, Iād have enough snow to ski on! Our new puppy … Continue reading Snizzling
From āA poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trumpā
ā¦by Joseph Charles MacKenzie, member of the Society of Scottish-American Poets: āBut one man pledged the fortune he possessed To us who cried in silence and in vain, Eschewing pleasure, wealth, foregoing rest His labors consecrated to our pain. ā¦And he remembered us, and looked on our dismay, The man whose word, once given, he … Continue reading From āA poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trumpā
Living the Legend
Ten degrees tonight. This is the cold of the fairy tales, the ŃŠŗŠ°Š·ŠŗŠø; it is insistent, importunate, whenever I pass a window in or house I feel it seeking entry. Why do people call the geni of the season āOldā Man Winter? This is a warrior, a gallant in his prime! This is not āFather … Continue reading Living the Legend
Should medical care be free?
ā¦.of course this is prompted by the saga of the handsome (eye of the beholder, I reckon..) Luigi who murdered the CEO of United Healthcare. The public reaction appears to be a big ball oāyarn, itās difficult to pick out the individual skeins. Why should ANYONE have to pay for medical care? Why should insurance … Continue reading Should medical care be free?
Notre Dame reopens!
ā¦ā¦.doesnāt it feel, in retrospect, like that fire in April,2019 was a harbinger of the disasters to come? Covid and the lockdowns. Trump ālosingā the 2020 election. Open and widespread support for sacrifice or at least irreparable mutilation of children. Wars and rumors of wars. It has been one hell of a five years! But … Continue reading Notre Dame reopens!


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