Sarah Avery

Now that she is fired, Kristi Noem will have more time to spend with someone else's husband.

That's not true, but Nadezhda Durova got into a duel to avoid being asked to talk about her marriage by Chotiner.

That's not true, but Bartleby the Scrivener practiced saying, "I would prefer not to," for ages, just so he'd be ready to say it when Chotiner asked for an interview.

Skilled machinist and corporate attorney, respectively. Both WWII vets educated by the GI Bill.

Self-described "popularists" who oppose incorporating reproductive rights as a centerpiece issue do not have data on their side.

The public opposes the far-right agenda on bodily autonomy. Democrats should enable that majority because it's right--and because it's good politics.

Do you happen to know whether Pollack ever read Jerome Rothenberg’s anthology of shamanic poetry from around the world, Technicians of the Sacred? I read it and her novel Unquenchable Fire around the same time last year, and wished I knew whom to ask about my hunch that she had.

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Spotted in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood

The crocuses in my yard have surfaced. As soon as today's snow melts, they'll be flowering, and I'll post photos. Welcome, Spring!

That post was an absolute stunner. Hyperion had been high on my TBR pile until then, but not after. Last year, in a Chaucer-induced fit of curiosity, I tried to start it, but nothing I found in the opening chapter outweighed the ick.

If "Iran" bombs an American city, it was Trump. I have a sick feeling that's been the drive behind this whole ugly run-up to war.

I thought Younger Kid wasn't reading anything outside school because he was stuck for a long time at the same spot in a YA fantasy novel. While I wasn't looking, he read the Fagles translation of the Odyssey twice, and then Wuthering Heights.

Taking good care of the cat is definitely important, if any of those guys is going to attract a wife!

The most surprising thing I saw in London was a shop whose entire business was repairing antique sword canes, umbrellas, and parasols. Window displays full of sword canes!

The problem with the whole 'post a woman author you've read 5 books by' is how many women don't get a second book, let alone five.

Anyway, carry on.

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

Now that ebikes are getting better, safer, and more affordable, lots of us who are not able to deal with our hills at speed without an assist are in various stages of researching and adapting to ebikes. I thought my chronic pain would make me a non-biker for the rest of my life. Glad it's not so.

False. In my otherwise car-dependent suburban county, homes close enough to Rock Creek Park to allow commuting by bike to DC are prized, and priced appropriately. Spouse used to commute 45 minutes each way, half again what it would have been by car, so that he could go by bike. Not weird here.

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

I cut at least half the times I have characters laugh when I revise a ms. If the reader doesn't think it's funny, then either the character is a distractingly bad judge of humor or I am. The laugh only stays in if I am very sure, or it helps establish the character that something amuses them.

I love New Jersey, where one of the principal exports is profanity.

This was part of the goal the whole time. Not at the top of their priority list, but it's a classic part of their playbook.

That series utterly consumed me in the months I spent reading it during the pandemic. Gormenghast did that for me, too.

the lesson of the pandemic lockdowns should have been "the only people important to the functioning of society are the workers who actually do things"

if every rich asshole on earth vanished in a puff of smoke tomorrow, nobody would notice or care

The suburban moms in Lululemon pants are now too busy going to legal observer trainings and building mutual aid networks to be dueling over HOA complaints.

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Respondents engage in a deliberately dense three-step maneuver to reach their core absurd conclusion that no further relief is warranted.  Step 1: Identify an immaterial difference between two things that are functionally the same. [Opp. at 9; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].  Step 2: Insist that the immaterial difference is so consequential that it can violate separation of powers. [Opp. at 12; Dkt. No. 103 at 3]. Finally, and most importantly,  Step 3: Make sure to never mention the Constitution with the hope that a federal court will not notice. [See generally Opp.; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].

I missed this real banger of an opinion yesterday from judge sunshine sykes (the best-named judge), vacating the BIA ruling on mandatory immigration detention

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

Romance about fire mages would, of course, be pyromantasy.

Enterprising bees.