Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: January 17 to January 23
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week As I told you last week, I’ve been rereading a favorite from the past, the Lloyd Alexander series, The Chronicles of Prydain. I thought I’d share this: […]
My Blog Week: January 10 to January 16
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Robo-Republicans I’ve been rereading, after decades, a book series I loved as a youngster: Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain. Well. Lord Gwydion has […]
My Blog Week: January 3 to January 9
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Shame on Us How do people get this unhinged? Or, how is it possible, even with a Trump mob wanting to lynch Mike […]
My Blog Week: December 27 to January 2
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Who Goes There? The last week of 2020 seems to have been dominated by fakes. Early on, the internet was obsessed with whether […]
My Blog Week: December 20 to December 26
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Done With It The culture creates an era’s beliefs and practices; the society enforces them. This week, a few things that the Trump era […]
My Blog Week: December 13 to December 19
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Small Odds This week marked a shift for GOP apologists, towards a phenomenon known as the Tail Wagging the Dog. A Wall Street Journal […]
My Blog Week: December 6 to December 12
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Speciosity Americans have become bad arguers, and bad processors of slow information (which, in the way of slow food, is the old school goodness […]
My Blog Week: November 29 to December 5
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Stasis Oasis “But you’d rather be, or I should say, you need to be, comforted by an explanation you believe is true. Here’s what’s funny. Anything […]
My Blog Week: November 22 to November 28
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Ageing Brats Back in the mid-sixties, let’s say, two children were born. We’ll name them Luann and Benji. Their parents had an original view of child-rearing: […]
My Blog Week: November 15 to November 21
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week More Flounce to the Ounce Earlier in the Trump presidency, commentators used to say, “The one thing about Trump is that he’s never boring.” Well. These […]