3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (374+ words) Splice Today - Music Blondie - "Union City Blue" (Live 1979) - Pop Culture Honestly, I'm Not Aware of That - Moving Pictures Why Christopher Nolan shot "The Odyssey" on IMAX film - Sex The Age Gap Nobody Wants to Talk About - Digital The Robots Are…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (416+ words) An Interview with Winston Pingeon, former Capitol Police Officer assaulted on Jan 6, and his thoughts on the new "Anti-Weaponization" fund. On'January 6, Winston was assaulted while struggling to defend his gun from being removed, was pepper-sprayed, and feared for his life....

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (146+ words) A personality cult'is morally rudderless, like machines. If the most libertarian Member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), has lost his reelection primary by the time you read this, it will be thanks to Trump relentlessly attacking…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (293+ words) The future has less room for humans. The'BBC'recently ran a piece on how technology is transforming woodworking. Dust-free workshops. AI-assisted table saws that can tell the difference between oak and your thumb. Robot microfactories that arrive in shipping containers and…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (229+ words) Naw, it was more American "linguistic constructivism." It's'anachronistic and arbitrary, but a post on X by Brivael Le Pogam apologizing on behalf of "the French" for "French theory" (he mentions the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze)…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (366+ words) What do you do after you've won? Though in the Trump Age many Americans have taken up politics as a passion, the French have always felt that. By far the favorite subject for these commentaries is the USA and its…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (216+ words) China's spying on U. S. tech firms. Eileen Wang recently resigned as mayor of Arcadia, a leafy suburb east of Los Angeles. She agreed to plead guilty in federal court to acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (427+ words) Trump Derangement Syndrome is so prevalent here that random people on the street will try to determine a stranger's politics. Once, in the comment section of an article I wrote about Portland politics for the conservative website PJ Media, someone…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (814+ words) Gasoline Fight Splice Today - Music The Smashing Pumpkins Complain About the English Media (1993) - Sex The Age Gap Nobody Wants to Talk About Yet another Quibbits set memory, this time from Zoolander (2001). I see everyone getting their movie stories in. All…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (526+ words) It doesn't get said enough. Cops are cool people. I was reminded of this the other day when I was leaving the grocery store and saw the face of a police officer who was coming in. It was the same…...