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Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me
Eine Kleine Space Opera
Apr 22
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Tertius Lydgate is in Emotional Consumer Debt
Middlemarch is a) the greatest English novel and b) about a young woman who wants to do the most good that she can, but whose idealism is often hampered…
Apr 7
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Easter Monday Miscellany
One way in which I’m very trad: like many great Catholic princes, I only go to Mass a couple of times a year.
Apr 6
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A Silver Divorce
Once upon a time--just long enough ago for a life story to play out from start to finish--there was a young man of exactly the character that I like the…
Apr 2
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Evidence of Time Travel
Prehistoric, Historic, Contemporary, Future
Apr 1
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January 2026
Contra Ajeya Cotra on Women Asking Men Out
If the Gale-Shapley algorithm is asker optimal, why don’t women ask men out? Are women just stupid? Lazy? Cowardly? Conformist? Unagentic? Or is the…
Jan 30
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Lamb Shanks with Guinness and Mustard
I have a taste for bitter flavors.
Jan 22
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November 2025
Preserves
Let’s make it last like jam.
Nov 5, 2025
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None of my business
but....
Nov 5, 2025
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In Defense of the Baby Shower
not that they really need defending?
Nov 3, 2025
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Somewhat Against Online Vulnerability
Towards the Online Here-and-Now
Nov 3, 2025
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Nursing Home Gossip
Or: The Old Wives' Tale
Nov 1, 2025
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