Friday Ferretblogging: Ferrets Are Responsible for All Good Things
Thanks, ferrets! One day in 1930, 16-year-old Boyce Lane was out indulging in a favourite pastime — rabbit hunting. The Tantanoola teenager was wandering around a local spot known as Hanging Rocks and...
View ArticleHeroes often fail
A young woman from my feature writing class sat in my office and stared at me long and hard. She halted for a moment before saying something I knew to be true: “I’ve never seen you like this before.”...
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Saturday Odds & Sods: Pocket Of A Clown
I had a long week and was away from the computer for much of it. I also had a drink or five on Thanksgiving. In short, I didn’t have the requisite time to lavish on this feature this week. Strictly my...
View ArticleYour Inconvenience Versus Someone’s Life
Oh, boy are we concern trolling HARD right now in Chicago: The protest did bother some shoppers, many of whom said they were from out of state and only had the day to check out Chicago’s Mag Mile...
View ArticleSunday Morning Video: Huey Long
Huey Long was Ken Burns’ third documentary feature and helped make his reputation as a filmmaker. Huey was, of course, the most colorful Gret Stet Goober of them all.
View ArticleIf You Vote There’s Nothing They Can Do
There’s a lesson in here for everyone, horrifying as the Trump show has become: The political network backed by the billionaire Koch brothers has no plans to take on Trump. American Crossroads, the...
View ArticleA Hard Year and a Cold One
Kick crawls into my lap and she whispers to me, “Shhh, dark out” in the very early morning when she wakes up. She wakes at 6, almost every day (when she doesn’t wake up at 5:30) and she wants toast and...
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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati –“everything must go” edition
Good morning, everyone! I promised some oldies, but first – a nugget of absolute pure Freepitude: In a thread about Dead Breitbart’s assertion that The Darnold didn’t REALLY say what he said: Donald...
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Quote Of The Day: Piercing Insight Edition
Another day, another quote from Charlie Pierce. This time about the rampant mendacity, fabulism, and truthiness that is depressingly ubiquitous on the American Right: As with so many things, this all...
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Malaka Of The Week: Joe Alleva
LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva frowns as Coach Les Miles holds a post-game presser on 11/28. Alleva is the silver-haired malaka with the blazer and purple tie. It’s been a wild and crazy few weeks...
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