Edward Belfar
@embelfar.bsky.social
Author of the 2024 Independent Press Award-winning novel A Very Innocent Man (Flexible Press, 2023) and the short-story collection Wanderers (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2012). Website: https://www.edwardbelfar.com/index.htm
You would think so--and you'd be wrong.
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You would think so--and you'd be wrong.
Exactly. It's not "orthodoxy" that he is opposing but a scientific consensus based on hard data.
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Exactly. It's not "orthodoxy" that he is opposing but a scientific consensus based on hard data.
"Yes, Minister" was funny. This is horrifying.
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
"Yes, Minister" was funny. This is horrifying.
It's a toddler essay now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's a toddler essay now.
The secrets are invasive, "like a cancer" (a simile piled on top of the metaphor), and he has to hack at those invasive, malignant secrets to "tame" them. It's all very confusing.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The secrets are invasive, "like a cancer" (a simile piled on top of the metaphor), and he has to hack at those invasive, malignant secrets to "tame" them. It's all very confusing.
I keep waiting for that to happen, and it never does.
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I keep waiting for that to happen, and it never does.
"From his mouth, the bullet theoretical..." I intended to reply to the comment just above mine.
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"From his mouth, the bullet theoretical..." I intended to reply to the comment just above mine.
Kind of like The Producers
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Kind of like The Producers
What does that last sentence mean?
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What does that last sentence mean?
There have been no news reports of cattle disease outbreaks and all that would follow from them, e.g., quarantining and depopulation of herds, other countries banning imports of American cattle and beef, etc. These people lie without compunction, and the hosts let them.
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
There have been no news reports of cattle disease outbreaks and all that would follow from them, e.g., quarantining and depopulation of herds, other countries banning imports of American cattle and beef, etc. These people lie without compunction, and the hosts let them.
I recall that Spade wasted no time in removing Archer's name from the office door following Archer's demise.
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I recall that Spade wasted no time in removing Archer's name from the office door following Archer's demise.
We've reached the stage where Nero has the fire brigade arrested for arson.
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We've reached the stage where Nero has the fire brigade arrested for arson.
Do we even know that? It wouldn't surprise me if he liked them just out of the showroom.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Do we even know that? It wouldn't surprise me if he liked them just out of the showroom.
Especially when it's the people who would presume to write the laws governing the health care system.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Especially when it's the people who would presume to write the laws governing the health care system.
Not even dad-joke worthy.
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Not even dad-joke worthy.
He now owns the two longest shutdowns.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
He now owns the two longest shutdowns.
He's overqualified for the current administration.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
He's overqualified for the current administration.
He's muttering to himself, "Rosebud."
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
He's muttering to himself, "Rosebud."
I do feel badly for the worm.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I do feel badly for the worm.
That would have been a real journalist's logical follow-up question.
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
That would have been a real journalist's logical follow-up question.
Especially his racist rants.
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Especially his racist rants.