Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: March 8 to March 14
All the Latest from Torsade! Readers, I had to take a sick day yesterday, not for that. Just a vicious migraine. So My Blog Week got missed Sunday, but here it is in its proper slot today. A Word on […]
My Blog Week: March 1 to March 7
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Henry Higgins, stat As I’ve said before, one of the propagandist’s first-rank tactics is making hay of the Problem That Can’t Be Solved. To illustrate, say […]
My Blog Week: February 23 to February 29
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Running Rife Public response to the potential pandemic seems fairly orderly in the United States so far. I live in a place of about 25,000 people, […]
My Blog Week: February 16 to February 22
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Phobia In times past, when the chief source of news in America was the three networks and PBS, I had a complaint. Say, for the sake […]
My Blog Week: February 9 to February 15
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Of Primary Concern A curious thing about the Democratic primary/caucuses. Bernie Sanders has been winning the popular vote. (He’ll probably lose to Biden in South […]
My Blog Week: February 2 to February 8
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Hustling and Bustling First, another entry in Ways America’s Dictatorship Resembles Maoism. A slogan* of China’s slaughtering era was, “Wrongly killing a hundred people is […]
My Blog Week: January 26 to February 1
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week A Palindromic Day (02022020) Not long ago, doing research reading newspapers from 1989, I was reminded of a phenomenon I hadn’t thought of in an age. […]
My Blog Week: January 19 to January 25
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Very, Very Sad Story “…in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts.” Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853 That […]
My Blog Week: January 12 to January 18
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week To Ask the Question Tomorrow, best of luck and safety to the people of Richmond, Virginia. The planned rally suggests a wish to instill fear in […]
My Blog Week: January 5 to January 11
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Precipitate A point of convergence in two of the big stories of the week… Let’s go back to 1997, not to rehash much of the unhappy […]