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One of those web logs from the 2000s but back for some reason
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The Berlin Wall fell down 36 years ago yesterday. A post about that and what walls mean in general: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/o...
On walls - Verities and Vagaries
Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the Berlin Wall collapsing under its own weight. It's a day I somehow remember, despite my young age at the time, mostly because our elementary school class in...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Berlin Wall fell down 36 years ago yesterday. A post about that and what walls mean in general: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/o...
The Berlin Wall fell down 36 years ago yesterday. A post about that and what walls mean in general: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/o...
On walls - Verities and Vagaries
Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the Berlin Wall collapsing under its own weight. It's a day I somehow remember, despite my young age at the time, mostly because our elementary school class in...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Berlin Wall fell down 36 years ago yesterday. A post about that and what walls mean in general: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/o...
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I would never quote Maggie Thatcher unless it was a good line
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I would never quote Maggie Thatcher unless it was a good line
On the Berlin Wall, which fell 36 years ago yesterday:
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On walls - Verities and Vagaries
Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the Berlin Wall collapsing under its own weight. It's a day I somehow remember, despite my young age at the time, mostly because our elementary school class in...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
On the Berlin Wall, which fell 36 years ago yesterday:
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Sandwich guy acquitted www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/s...
Sandwich guy acquitted and towards a universal definition of what is not crime - Verities and Vagaries
The D.C. sandwich guy™ has been found not guilty of whatever crime they decided to charge him with this time. He'd previously beat a grand jury on a felony charge, so the U.S. Attorney for D.C., in he...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sandwich guy acquitted www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/s...
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Something I hadn't realized until putting this post together is Pelosi was already 47 years old when she arrived in Congress—and still managed to serve almost 40 years www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
Pelosi retiring - Verities and Vagaries
The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. You may not be surprised if you think the minimum wage was increased recently,...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Something I hadn't realized until putting this post together is Pelosi was already 47 years old when she arrived in Congress—and still managed to serve almost 40 years www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
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Democrat won big in this week's elections—is there anything to learn? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/l...
Libbing out, or, what happened last night - Verities and Vagaries
Election nights sure feel better when the evil people don't win, don't they? It's a big relief, seeing decent people win in a variety of races around the country, instead of an overwhelming deluge of ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Democrat won big in this week's elections—is there anything to learn? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/l...
"The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax." 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax." 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Wrote about Psalm 2 for some reason www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/d...
Dragon books - Verities and Vagaries
Fuck it. We did Psalm 1; let's do Psalm 2. For the past several years, in my old age, I have gotten back into reading what I call my "dragon books" — fantasy novels — to have some semblance of escape ...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Wrote about Psalm 2 for some reason www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/d...
Sandwich guy acquitted www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/s...
Sandwich guy acquitted and towards a universal definition of what is not crime - Verities and Vagaries
The D.C. sandwich guy™ has been found not guilty of whatever crime they decided to charge him with this time. He'd previously beat a grand jury on a felony charge, so the U.S. Attorney for D.C., in he...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sandwich guy acquitted www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/s...
Something I hadn't realized until putting this post together is Pelosi was already 47 years old when she arrived in Congress—and still managed to serve almost 40 years www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
Pelosi retiring - Verities and Vagaries
The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. You may not be surprised if you think the minimum wage was increased recently,...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Something I hadn't realized until putting this post together is Pelosi was already 47 years old when she arrived in Congress—and still managed to serve almost 40 years www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
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On Nancy Pelosi retiring www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
Pelosi retiring - Verities and Vagaries
The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. You may not be surprised if you think the minimum wage was increased recently,...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On Nancy Pelosi retiring www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
On Nancy Pelosi retiring www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
Pelosi retiring - Verities and Vagaries
The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. You may not be surprised if you think the minimum wage was increased recently,...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On Nancy Pelosi retiring www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/p...
Democrat won big in this week's elections—is there anything to learn? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/l...
Libbing out, or, what happened last night - Verities and Vagaries
Election nights sure feel better when the evil people don't win, don't they? It's a big relief, seeing decent people win in a variety of races around the country, instead of an overwhelming deluge of ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Democrat won big in this week's elections—is there anything to learn? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/l...
Are there actually any big lessons we can learn from yesterday's elections? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/l...
Libbing out, or, what we did last night - Verities and Vagaries
Election nights sure feel better when the evil people don't win, don't they? It's a big relief, seeing decent people win in a variety of races around the country, instead of an overwhelming deluge of ...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Are there actually any big lessons we can learn from yesterday's elections? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/l...
Writing my elections postmortem by cleaning up the archives. That's how it works right
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Writing my elections postmortem by cleaning up the archives. That's how it works right
Looking through the archives, it's amazing how many ancient campaign ads are still alive on youtube www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2010/05/27/h...
Have you met Les Phillip, the American patriot running for Congress from Alabama? - Verities and Vagaries
The newest in our unofficial series where we meet candidates and look at their awesome advertisements, I'd like you to meet Les Phillip, who vows to protect America from enemies both foreign and domes...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Looking through the archives, it's amazing how many ancient campaign ads are still alive on youtube www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2010/05/27/h...
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In which I tell you about Patch the Pirate, a Christian fundamentalist pop music idol, and get really into a psalm www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/12/t...
The two ways - Verities and Vagaries
Okay, everybody open up your bibles (or whatever you call them) to Psalm (or whatever you call it) one. Not One Psalms (there aren't multiple books of Psalms that I know of*), but the first psalm (the...
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September 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In which I tell you about Patch the Pirate, a Christian fundamentalist pop music idol, and get really into a psalm www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/12/t...
Just unreal how broken the tags field in Wordpress still is
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just unreal how broken the tags field in Wordpress still is
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What cutting down some trees tells us about D.C. statehood www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/24/w...
What cutting down a couple trees tells us about D.C. statehood - Verities and Vagaries
So, as you may have heard, President Trump has decided to destroy the East Wing of the White House to build some kind of Bribery Ballroom (name pending, but actually not because it's going to be calle...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What cutting down some trees tells us about D.C. statehood www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/24/w...
From the deep archives: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2010/03/14/f...
Forget About the Money, I Want My Hour Back - Verities and Vagaries
A quick question for a rainy (oh so rainy) Sunday afternoon With all the glibertarian bloggerati* out there, blathering on about the government stealing their prodigious assets and other sundries, and...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From the deep archives: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2010/03/14/f...
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While you're over there following news we're over here reading psalms and dragon books (and not spoiling popular dragon books) www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/d...
Dragon books - Verities and Vagaries
Fuck it. We did Psalm 1; let's do Psalm 2. For the past several years, in my old age, I have gotten back into reading what I call my "dragon books" — fantasy novels — to have some semblance of escape ...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
While you're over there following news we're over here reading psalms and dragon books (and not spoiling popular dragon books) www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/d...
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A tale of two search engines www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/31/a...
A tale of two search engines - Verities and Vagaries
Just a quick post here from the webmaster to show how much Google sucks and how Bing may be a little less sucky? Let's see what happens when you search the name of the blog. Google: And, Bing:
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October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A tale of two search engines www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/31/a...
A tale of two search engines www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/31/a...
A tale of two search engines - Verities and Vagaries
Just a quick post here from the webmaster to show how much Google sucks and how Bing may be a little less sucky? Let's see what happens when you search the name of the blog. Google: And, Bing:
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October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A tale of two search engines www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/31/a...