Month: June 2016

by wj And surely we need one today, even if we were managing without yesterday. Apologies that my day job distracted me from setting this up sooner.

by Doctor Science The night Barack Obama was elected President I was super-tired (I’d been poll-working all day on the busiest day I’ve ever seen), but when he got up to speak I cried for joy. And I kept crying at random times for the next week, because I was so happy. I thought that … Read more

by Doctor Science Why Trump Was Inevitable in The NY Review of [each other’s] Books is a report by Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz, and Walter J. Stone of the results of a survey they commissioned on GOP primary voters back in February, around the time of the Iowa caucuses when there were still … Read more

By Ugh The Greatest. http://www.si.com/boxing/2016/06/04/muhammad-ali-death-obit

by Doctor Science I read no books this past week and precious little fanfic. Memorial Day Weekend for me was dominated by driving Sprog the Younger back up to New England for her summer jobs. This takes 3 days: one day to get to my parents’ house, one day to get Sprog where she needs … Read more