Torsade Literary Space 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 […]
My Blog Week: November 8 to November 14
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Going Forward Suppose you had an app, for spreadsheets or some such, used frequently and loved—but one day a virus came to infect it. Every document shared […]
My Blog Week: November 1 to November 7
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Yippie Yi Yay My fellow American writers, and our country’s well-wishers everywhere… (Wishing you well right back!) It may be a little hard, since Saturday, […]
My Blog Week: October 25 to October 31
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Four Points of Light As the world audience may be aware, there are some people in America who feel really, really sorry for themselves. They voted […]
My Blog Week: October 18 to October 24
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Blame to Go Around A subdued debate this week, or modestly subdued. Trump’s advisors flagged in advance that he would show a different character after polling badly following […]
My Blog Week: October 11 to October 17
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week What’s the Reason? I’m reminded of a WWI scandal involving William Randolph Hearst (detailed here), that I learned about when writing my neglected Yellow Press series. (I’ll get […]