Last night, while chit-chatting prior to an Alan Doyle concert (above) in Denver’s Lowry neighborhood — our first such event since the Before Times — my beloved and her bestie touched on the always popular topic of Denver’s insane housing market. They traded 👀 tales of Zillow estimates, and wondered aloud who the heck is buying all these average-seeming houses… Read more »
Every day (well, almost every day), I do the daily Wordle — and often I have ✨thoughts✨ afterward that I want to share: an observation, a joke, a humblebrag about exactly how I figured it out, or whatever. But obviously I don’t want to spoil that day’s Wordle (because I’m not a monster), so I typically can’t just tweet out… Read more »
The other day, in a thread replying to a Joe Remi tweet about the latest deadly lies about COVID on Tucker Carlson’s disinformation show, I found myself saying this: Demagogic lies are stronger than nuanced facts. Simplistic fantasies are stronger than inconvenient, complex realities. In a wholly unfettered marketplace of ideas—without even informal guardrails—evil outcompetes good; lies trump the truth…. Read more »
[This post is being published on April 11, 2022, but it’s back-dated to the date of the Wordle in question.] Wordle burst onto the mainstream social-media scene while I was on vacation in Florida. Upon my return, I initially mocked it (with a nerdy Star Trek reference, natch). But then, on January 25, I finally gave in.
After a two-year hiatus due to procrastination in 2019, then COVID in 2020 (because c’mon, last year’s CFB season was bulls***), the Living Room Times Bowl Pick ‘Em Contest is back! You can enter the contest here. It’s free to enter. The prize, as always, is ETERNAL GLORY. The entry deadline is tomorrow morning, Saturday 12/18, at 9:00 AM MST… Read more »
t/w: discussion of how toxic lawless police culture, and the GOP’s weaponization thereof, might just be the proximate cause of downfall of representative democracy in America. (Also, how we should have listened to Black people about this, years ago. FFS.) Portland’s entire police crowd-control unit, 50 officers in all, have resigned en masse from their assignment, in protest over a… Read more »
2011 Ten years ago, I made my first-ever #GiantBracket, inspired by the Mid-Majority: And what a year for it, as it turned out! 2012 I couldn’t find one photo showing the 2012 #GiantBracket in its final, post-championship form, but here are a few photos that collectively show most of it.
It’s been… One week since Joe solemnlyswore an oath to the best of his abilityTwo weeks since the House agreedto impeach Trump again for his seditious treacheryThree weeks since Pence had to fleesaying, “Get that mob outta here before they hang me”Yesterday, you cried “unity”But you can’t be forgiven without saying sorry Hold it now and watch the hoodwinkThe crazy… Read more »
The House of Representatives is right now debating the second impeachment of Donald Trump, this time for inciting a mob of armed insurrectionists who, a week ago today, violently stormed the United States Capitol and besieged the legislative branch of our nation’s government in a premeditated putsch attempt, aiming to seditiously — and, some of them hoped, murderously — disrupt… Read more »
This post is not meant to shame anyone. But as an honest expression of emotion, I confess I was somewhat disheartened this morning to realize that, out of my core group of co-workers — all of whom I respect as decent, sensible, intelligent people — I’m the only one who will be spending Thanksgiving with ONLY members of my own… Read more »
