I knew there was something I was supposed to do before the year ended. Oh well, Happy New Year to all you undead delinquents out there.
It's 2026 in Bangkok. Turns out, everything this year is exactly the same as 2025 so far, a truly terrible year. But hey, celebrate if you want, pretend like 2026.
Trump's leadership mode being "mafia don" is a cliched description, but cliches are generally accurate, and I don't think there's a better one: President Trump’s surprise veto of a bill.
Agustín Codazzi, Manuel Maria Paz, Felipe Pérez - Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República de Colombia, 1890. Political division of (Greater) Colombia in 1824. Map XI of the Geographic and Historic Atlas of the Republic of Colombia, 1890. Back in the olden days of the first Donald Trump...
My post about Homage to Catalonia produced many interesting responses, including an email from a scholar who tells me that Orwell's beliefs at the time about the actual role of.
Nicholas Wright - Unsplash In the wake of the temporary renaming of the Kennedy Center and Richard Grenell's threat to sue Chuck Redd for cancelling his performance, more artists have.
This is the grave of Togo West. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1942, West grew up in the Black middle class of that southern city. His parents were educators, demanded quality work from their kids, and he graduated as valedictorian of his high school. He...
This gets people to give money to Donald Trump: (Images are actual images at top of email). Some people are saying: This is SAD!I’m sitting here. Alone. In the war.
Throw another thing on the "boy 2025 really sucked huh" pile: Isiah Whitlock Jr., a veteran character actor known for memorable roles in such series as The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and.
As is well known, DOGE and related Republican cuts to the federal government did not save any material amounts of money, but they were very good at making many government services worse. Social Security is another example: The Social Security Administration — the sprawling federal agency...
Karen Zhao - Unsplash A brief note: It is perfectly normal to despise Melania Trump. But if you can't express your distaste without being a sexist shithead go to one.
Seiya Maeda - Unsplash In the not-too-distant past Megyn Kelly thought college students who protested in support of Palestine ought to be blacklisted. She said everyone who supported Palestine hates.