Sitting here in the living room of my beloved childhood home, I count 13 objects just on the mantelpiece alone. I didnât put all of them there; theyâve been there since I was a kid. I didnât buy any of them. There they are: 6 bronze figures, a cigarette holder made from a tiger skull, … Continue reading Dear Things
Author: Hypatia
Quick: how long since New Yearâs Day 2025?
Iâd make it 36 days. Not 36 years or months. DAYS. And yet, when JD gave his great pro-free speech oration in Munich this weekâ Munich, which had a few days previously suffered a mass murder by an Afghan Muslimâ how many Americans remembered Shamsud Din Jabbar? Heâs the guy who massacred a buncha people … Continue reading Quick: how long since New Yearâs Day 2025?
Coup-coup!
DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT ATTEMPTS TO TAKE OVER THE US GOVERNMENT! Joy Reid called Trumpâs efforts to examine and streamline government agencies a âcoupâ. How do they get away with this shit? Do they HEAR themselves? Trump is so right to act with lightning speed. He doesnât have long before the Leviathan recovers and mounts a … Continue reading Coup-coup!
January 17 three years on
Snizzling
âŠ..thatâs why itâs been doing all day here, snow as fine as a drizzle of rain. . I look out and it looks like fog, but itâs waaay too cold for fog, only about 13 F. If this would go on for about 3 days, Iâd have enough snow to ski on! Our new puppy … Continue reading Snizzling
From âA poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trumpâ
âŠby Joseph Charles MacKenzie, member of the Society of Scottish-American Poets: âBut 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. âŠAnd he remembered us, and looked on our dismay, The man whose word, once given, he … Continue reading From âA poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trumpâ
Living the Legend
Ten degrees tonight. This is the cold of the fairy tales, the ŃĐșазĐșĐž; 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 âOldâ Man Winter? This is a warrior, a gallant in his prime! This is not âFather … Continue reading Living the Legend
Should medical care be free?
âŠ.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 oâyarn, itâs 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!
âŠâŠ.doesnât it feel, in retrospect, like that fire in April,2019 was a harbinger of the disasters to come? Covid and the lockdowns. Trump âlosingâ 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!
The Harrowing of Hell
In the non-canonical Gospel of Nicodemus, during the 3 days between the Crucifuxion and the Resurrection, Jesus and John the Baptist go to Hell to release the souls of the blessĂšd, good people who couldnât go to Heaven cuz they lived before Jesusâ birth. â Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates! Behold, the King … Continue reading The Harrowing of Hell


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