Daughter Number Three

I finally watched the HBO five-part miniseries Chernobyl over the past two days. I'm not sure why I didn't see it when it came out ...

I try to avoid thinking about AI as much as possible. That said, here are are two Why Is This Happening podcasts that pair well together. T...

Here in Minnesota, we're constantly inundated with talk of fraud, fraud, fraud. That's Minnesota Republicans' favorite word, sin...

I don't write often enough about the scourge that is RFK Jr. So to make up for that, here's a recommended story called RFK Jr.'s...

I finished the three giant escapist fantasy books I was rereading and reading most recently, just in time for the brand new Cork O'Conno...

It's time for my more or less annual reminder to support cartoonist Tom Tomorrow's Sparky's List , as all of the publications th...

Have you heard about SpudCells? This article in the Star Tribune  (gift link) almost a week ago was the first thing I saw, but it had been w...

Rebecca Solnit wrote about the duality of America for the Guardian .  Using her able way with words, she provided a number of contradictory ...

I was afraid I had lost track of Philip Bump, the former Washington Post writer. He stopped posting on his blog some additional thoughts b...

I've mentioned the War on Cars podcast just a few times since I started listening to it in 2024 ( here and here ). Two of its recent e...

There were two medical stories on the same page of today's Star Tribune , both local, though one with a national focus. One good news, o...

Have you ever wondered about the "Lorem ipsum" words that are frequently used for dummy text? Emily Zhang, an intrepid YouTube cre...

A friend sent me a link to a video about Carroll Spinney, the man who was Big Bird from the time  Sesame Street began production in the 196...

I spent most of my foot-recovery time this weekend watching two seasons of Shrinking on Apple TV. I had heard just a tiny bit about it befo...

I have a number of friends who practice daily gratitude. I am not one of them.  I think it's a good idea, but I can't seem to make a...

I love Jamelle Bouie. And in addition to his writing, I love that he makes videos and doesn't try to make them perfect. This 8.5 minute ...

Lately, I've gotten very selective about which of the few podcasts I have in my phone that I ever get around to listening to. Ostensibly...

My home office finally reached that negative tipping point where I absolutely had to deal with it. This always happens when I can't find...

I watched Casablanca for the first time this weekend.  It was hard to place myself as a viewer as if I were seeing it when it first came ou...

Today, I have a couple of slightly disparate media recommendations that fit together in my head. First, a Science Friday segment from last w...