My Blog Week: July 26 to August 1
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Twilight of the Old Regime Two threats came to us this week, on record—threats that can’t be called overt. But no longer queued items not yet […]
My Blog Week: July 19 to July 25
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Misremembrance of Things Past I have a reason for writing opinion pieces. Being opinionated, of course, but also to counter that hazard creative people know, a […]
My Blog Week: July 12 to July 18
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Burned-Out Asset Civil Rights giant John Lewis died this week. Resistance Twitter (how we need Resistance Twitter these days!) got busy with this video, showing Florida […]
My Blog Week: July 5 to July 11
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Praise be New books on the man in the White House, aside from the much-anticipated title from his niece, arriving this week, are a satirical novel by […]
My Blog Week: June 28 to July 4
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Bobbing Cork Suppose you attend a gathering, and there are ninety-nine other people in your seating section, some wearing masks, some not. Some yell and sing, some […]
My Blog Week: June 21 to June 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Granny Economy It’s worth considering that this time last year—in fact, a few months ago this year—however hot-buttoned the GOP fringers were, they hadn’t thought of getting […]
My Blog Week: June 14 to June 20
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Behind the Mask I have been not wearing a mask; the place I live hasn’t made it mandatory. But I’ve got them now, and it’s time to start. […]
My Blog Week: June 7 to June 13
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Good with the Riddance Cultural changes are big news. It would be tempting, or surface-plausible, to say TV shows, movies, books, are just fiction, just entertainment. There is […]
My Blog Week: May 31 to June 6
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week A note to begin: According to the useful charts you can find on the Reuters website, on April 6 of this year the death toll in the United States from […]
My Blog Week: May 24 to May 30
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week This week has been tough, and…as things have fallen out…the serial novel I started writing in 2018 has two plot undercurrents: the Spanish flu pandemic, that began in 1918, and […]
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