Lincolniana

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ~ all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted altogether to saving the Union without war insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy… Continue reading Lincolniana

“I believe at this point they changed their language”

My doctor told me that sometimes pregnant women get itchy, it’s normal. That seemed like a banal description of my experience, so I trolled around the Internet, eventually finding a website called itchymoms.com. Here I learned about a condition called cholestasis of the liver, in which bile leaks into your bloodstream, slowly poisoning your bloodstream,… Continue reading “I believe at this point they changed their language”

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Matt Levine, Money Stuff 2022-11-01. We’re talking low prices. Currently reading: London Rules, Mick Herron.

the belieber’s journey

If I’m not mistaken, I referred to myself in a prior post as a “pattern-matching ape.” This is about as simian as it gets, folks. # If you have the “right” sort of “friends” on social media, you periodically run into these wild, fantastically detailed, obsessively sourced theories about the hidden structure of beloved fandoms… Continue reading the belieber’s journey