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Weekend Plans Post: They Have Changed the Butter at Costco butter

Weekend Plans Post: They Have Changed the Butter at Costco

Jaybird June 4, 2026
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
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All I Want for Christmas… doggie

All I Want for Christmas…

Clare Briggs June 3, 2026
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Dems Should Dump Platner Platner

Dems Should Dump Platner

David Thornton June 2, 2026
Primaries in the internet age give us candidates that deeply politicized internet junkies want rather than candidates...
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Our Busy Little Burg

Clare Briggs June 2, 2026
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Three Elections to Keep an Eye On ps

Three Elections to Keep an Eye On

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Pratt, Paxton, and Platner
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Summers in Chicago

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Ten Observations on Paxton v Talarico

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Paxton has absolutely dreadful negatives, but probably holds an advantage among double-negatives if that's where the race...
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Twelve Months (The Whole Year)

Jaybird May 31, 2026
We finish the book. It's pretty good.
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Danny Dreamer Gets Grounded chee

Danny Dreamer Gets Grounded

Clare Briggs May 31, 2026
But his friends come to the rescue! Well, they show up, anyway.
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Saturday Morning Gaming: The Yellow Paint Problem seance (2)

Saturday Morning Gaming: The Yellow Paint Problem

Jaybird May 30, 2026
I'm playing a new game and it is holding my hand.
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Getting a Talking To 2026-05-29 TDoRS C5139 (05.23.15)

Getting a Talking To

Clare Briggs May 29, 2026
Sing, O muse
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POETS Day! The Present in TS Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages” Dry Salvages

POETS Day! The Present in TS Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages”

Ben Sears May 28, 2026
Where we usher in Henry Ford’s greatest creation–the weekend–ahead of schedule by embracing the ethos: Piss Off...
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Weekend Plans Post: One is Silver, One is Gold thecar

Weekend Plans Post: One is Silver, One is Gold

Jaybird May 28, 2026
Do you still hang out with friends from high school and/or college?
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The Dark and the Sunny Side of the Game giants2

The Dark and the Sunny Side of the Game

Clare Briggs May 28, 2026
The Giants were in the Negro Leagues
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British Monarchs and the Zombie Apocalypse British Monarchs and the Zombie Apocalypse

British Monarchs and the Zombie Apocalypse

SarahStook May 28, 2026
I’m doing it from William the Conqueror onward. Honourable mention to Ethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, who...
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Gentrified Camp Mountain Lake Red-Eye Gravy Plate

Gentrified Camp Mountain Lake Red-Eye Gravy

Ben Sears May 28, 2026
More than a few red eye recipes claim to be original or authentic. I don’t believe there’s...
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Bad Blood Prevention catarrh

Bad Blood Prevention

Clare Briggs May 27, 2026
Also prevents catarrh.
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Wednesday Music: Bardcore

Jaybird May 27, 2026
A Bardcore cover of Choosin' Texas
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Wonder What a Bass Drummer Thinks About

Clare Briggs May 26, 2026
Johnny Get Your Gun
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Preparing for the Borg Bard Brigade

Alex M. Parker May 26, 2026
Why one writer isn't worried about being replaced with AI. Yet.
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