10:00p thursday: the anniversary of friedrich nietzsche's birthday is the fifteenth of october. in honor of that, a.word.a.day put up a quot...

5:30a wednesday: i was waiting for a transcript of on the media's " Polarization Is Not Our Biggest Problem " but...no more. there were thre...

9:00a sunday: during my second stint at college, i met the wonderful dr laddie elwell. i never took any of her classes--ornithology, her spe...

4:30p tuesday: climate change has been in the news a lot for years now. for a while, it was thought with a clear warning, nations would act ...

Russian Strikes Against Civilians; Do Ukraine And Europe Understand What They Must Do?

9:00a monday: on this indigenous people's day, i thought it appropriate to feature the buffalo hunter hunter by stephen graham jones. i've ...

6:00a saturday: fairly early in my adult life, i came to the conclusion that whenever god was invoked, things got messy--even though more of...

6:00a saturday: fairly early in my adult life, i came to the conclusion that whenever god was invoked, things got messy--even though more of...

7:30a friday: this morning's story, " A student hated reading for years. Her podcast explores finding the right diagnosis " brought up a goo...

6:00a thursday: since i dumped my twitter account, i have been putting up ' talk to yourself out loud ' posts here on @kobeest.bsky.social  ...

6:30a wednesday: if you haven't been sleeping under a rock these past couple of years, you will have heard the tirades attacking DEI . tRump...

Sen. Susan Collins and Troy Jackson had their first of four US Senate debates in Maine, and Collins was awful. The three decade long incumbent showed why she is in real trouble.

8:30p tuesday: fittingly, the first saunas i took were in finland--soumi. i was just sixteen, visiting my brother living in greater helsinki...

9:00a monday: caution, reading this book-- his majesty's dragon by naomi novik--you may just get hooked into the whole temeraire series, wi...

1:00p sunday: according to the palestinian health ministry, the number of palestinians killed since israeli went to war in gaza, is closing ...

7:00a friday: it's rare that i use the word "hate" at least in its strongest sense. more likely, there are people who "hate" that i bring up...

5:30a thursday: as we come into october, it's staying darker later into the morning. even when the time finally shifts and we "fall back" on...

6:00a wednesday: as controversial as vaccinations can be, i get the lot of them when i'm 'due'. once i passed 65, they are not only recommen...

5:00p tuesday: when i first saw the headline, " Portsmouth rep. challenges House leader to fist fight, rejects calls to resign ", the first ...