Clint Eastwood's Cowboy Economics wordbasket.blogspot.com/2019/11/clint-… This parable of smallness and honesty versus bigness and corruption, remains tearfully relevant because we face this issue today.

On November 23rd, 1936, Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson had his first ever recording session in a makeshift studio at the Gunter Hotel, in San Antonio, Texas. Songs recorded at this session included "Cross Road Blues," "Sweet Home Chicago," and "Come On In My Kitchen."

Is Democracy a Moral Good? wordbasket.blogspot.com/2020/11/is-dem… Democracy is only a second-tier moral good. The will of the people only matters when it promotes justice.

Apparently, online edgelords are pissing themselves over racially diverse casting in the How To Train Your Dragon remake. And not, y'know, why we'd remake a settled existing property. Especially when Hollywood has so many writers, many of them racially diverse, looking for work.

November 24th, 1713, is the birthday of Irish priest and novelist Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy), who once wrote: “What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.”

RFK Jr. is Maybe, Slightly, Right wordbasket.blogspot.com/2024/11/rfk-jr… It’s a matter of time before Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Elon Musk create an insuperable rift within the upcoming Trump administration.

November 25th, 1926, is the birthday of American science fiction novelist Poul Anderson (Tau Zero), who once wrote: “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.”

Artists and the Schizoid Personality wordbasket.blogspot.com/2024/11/artist… To write those monsters with the full dimensionality audiences have grown accustomed to, writers must occupy the monstrous headspace.

Trump Guitars? Man, they absolutely need to be strung up. guitarworld.com/gear/electric-…

On November 26th, 1791, the Cabinet of the U.S. Executive Branch met for the first time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Attendees included Secretaries Thomas Jefferson (State), Alexander Hamilton (Treasury), Henry Knox (War), and Edmund Randolph (Attorney General).

Harry Potter and the Absence of God wordbasket.blogspot.com/2016/05/harry-… What Philip Pullman did for Narnia, Dan Vyleta here does for Harry Potter, reconstructing the story without the original’s Christian backbone.

Joni Mitchell voice: 🎶Don't it always seem to go🎵 🎶That you don't know what you got🎵 Until you get back from the grocery store and realize you're missing half the ingredients for this recipe...

Regressivists always wind up telling on themselves because they have to use GenAI to create images of the pristine past they claim to long for. Also, excessively bright blonde hair can be a result of genetic homozygotism.

Today's vocabulary word is "Constitutional Crisis." Can you say it with me? abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…

I understand why some are mad that Biden pardoned his son after saying he wouldn't. But taking the high road hasn't worked for about 15 years. Without a pardon, R's would've kept using Hunter, an unelected private citizen, as a tool to exact revenge, as they've been doing.

You know in Casablanca where Rick realizes that, if he has Nazis in his bar, then he's running a Nazi bar, so he allows the band to play the Marseillaise? More like that, please.

I can't believe it's not butter. I refuse to believe it's not butter. I think you're actively lying to me about butter. I know you're a butter fraud. I'm taking you to butter court. I will see you in butter jail. I stake my legal career on this not being butter.

A Brief, Unscientific Economics of Fireworks wordbasket.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-brie… My middle-class friends cast moralistic aspersions on poor people discharging fireworks. “They’re just setting money on fire,” someone recently said.

Why are authors, musicians, and filmmakers so political these days? Why can't they create art from a complete absence of social engagement, like they did when I was in middle school?