TREES SHOULD HAVE STANDING – Sierra Club v. Morton: some Justice Wm. Douglass dissent
Head of the Sinner’s Table
How to maximize your war machine*
One of my favorite clips from one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies
I Have a Soul in Some Notebooks + My Mother Named Me An Adjective, Pt II; Name Fulfilled
My Mother Named Me an Adjective (part I)
Tuesday’s House Impeachment hearings
Dr. Fiona Hill Testifies Thursday – Key Excerpts from her deposition testimony
This Is Your Stock Video On Drugs ⌯ October 16, 2019 ⌯ Crazy Kim on Horseback Version
This Is Your Stock Video On Drugs – October 15th
This Is Your Stock Video On Drugs – October 14th
There’s a lot of talk on Twitter and right-wing media about Republicans being the “party of Lincoln” and the heroes of the Civil War. Yale professor and Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight explains why that’s ridiculous—
AMERICAN SHAME: the unspoken repulsiveness wrapped up in even the most basic Native American-ish family lore, and all of our American history
Batmish, it’s time. Dammit. Dammit, dammit, dammit. DAMN IT.
How to get unparalyzed: Find a PACMAN. Lay on the ground. Dance.
Barr deep dive brought from landing page to actual post
DOJ letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler asserting executive privilege re Mueller Report
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it. (Dad, it’s time. I need you back…)
Chaos is a Ladder… (and takes up a helluva lot of space.) Entertainment for Armageddon, Littlefinger style
STOP.
Game of Thrones homage to perhaps the greatest narrative altering machine in storytelling history – Petyr Baelish
Barr Deep Dive – IRAQGATE – Bill Barr has always been a big fat liar
Putin and Trump: they agree on so much. Especially on the particulars of their opinion of McCain… and its very Vietnam-centric core. (I would at least re-record my awful intro reading if I had saved the original)
Happy Birthday, my love
The journals
What do you do with the leftovers of your mental wind-downs? 🎨 well, if you’ve got a blog…
Four Notebooks
On Materialism
I rarely write the real things here, which seems to me a healthy instinct —
I hate it when Dad talks to me from beyond the grave — my skeletons are finally dancing
I bring you “uncool” – Almost Famous
I was not always called Serene
The fundamental question; so fundamental that it’s highly unlikely you’ve ever noticed – because you’re standing on it
Christmas thanksgiving. I’m thankful, even if the calendar does say I’m mixing up my holidays
There is nothing in the world I love more than learning
Reason 1 to do this thing
So, I’m pretty sure I’m about to do something rash
Ten years ago I died. Today, I live.
Gotta stick this back up top again for a friend >> RANDOM AUDIO: I blew up the weed
Eleven Nation Army
Squaring the Circle
RANDOM AUDIO: I Am Way More Obsessed with HPAI than you are
Orange Blossom Challenge
Ninety Years Ago Today My Father Was Born
How We Play Chess: version Well, We Had Really Better Be Getting On With It, Then
We are AWAKE
Swallowing Pictures
The Secret Itself is the Power: My Mother Was the Real Genius
I have a soul in some notebooks
“…in bondage to the whole course of previous history” • (Tolstoy is difficult, but there’s a reason “War and Peace” is cited again and again with a reverence no other piece of literature even approaches: the experience of reading “War and Peace” is like introducing your soul to itself, and changes you forever)
White House Withholds 20 Emails (in FOIA suit) Between Two Trump Aides on Ukraine Aid
I’m sorry, but I’m required to put this up here. It’s the law: Matt Flegenheiner’s piece on Pete Buttigieg.
Ukraine: seven persons involved in the organization of Russian elections in the illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol added to EU sanctions list (Council of the European Union)
