“They’re taking our lanyards!”

I liked this one, reminded me of George W.’s comments on Virgil’s Eclogues theonion.com/sweaty-ass-p...

“however, in degrees of wrongness there is no limit” — Thomas Carlyle

Friday Vocabulary "It is hard to make out what there is in the darkness beyond the window, but at least we can try not to be distracted by our own reflections." — T. P. Wiseman

Just finished today my 1800th book since I began tracking such nonsense in 2013. #booksky

I see that some people don’t grasp the basics of asymmetric warfare

Friday Vocabulary "He had indulged in occasional day-dreams of an ideal state of social equality, but his wildest flights of fancy had never located it nearer than heaven, and he had felt some misgivings about it practical working even there." — Charles W. Chesnutt

Breaking: Former rapper's political party wins Nepal election in landslide: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-08/nepal-election-rapper-turned-politican-balen-shah-party-victory/106428916

Friday Vocabulary "Everything feels the new breath except the old doting nigh-dead politicians, whose heart the trumpet of resurrection could not wake." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“what if history takes even half a step in the direction of normality, as it occasionally has done in the past?” — Hans Helmut Kirst

Not everyone you meet is an asshole; sometimes people are just having a bad day

Looking on Amazon for Lee Hazlewood’s reissued _Love And Other Crimes_, tried first “hazelwood love and other crimes” nope just books, my bad got the name wrong, tried “hazlewood love and other crimes” still just books Had to add “lee” to last query to get my results Why is search so bad? #BadSearch

Friday Vocabulary "Everything feels the new breath except the old doting nigh-dead politicians, whose heart the trumpet of resurrection could not wake." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday Vocabulary "If Fascism came to America it would be on a program of Americanism." — Huey P. Long

Surprised myself by putting together my promised list of the last 100 books I've read, less than months after I made the promise. Come! See my banal taste! Thrill to my lack of literary insight! Gasp at my poor choices! #booksky

Read my 1700th book since I began tracking such things in 2015, a fine jeremiad from Philip K. Dick, given to me by my daughter and son-in-law #booksky (sorry if the image doesn't render well in the horizontal link image used here, but the full pic is on the blog post)

Friday Vocabulary "Despair and longing tend to be the currency of Denmark's synth-goth elite" —Piers Martin

Trumpo delenda est

Great thread about bookbinding and especially paper edges

Friday Vocabulary for the 52nd and final Friday of 2025: "Men conscious of real and deep reverence are not fearful of the appearance of irreverence." — Frederick William Robertson #vocabulary

Friday Vocabulary for the 51st and penultimate Friday of 2025: "those men enjoy luxury most completely who are the best able to do without it" — Epicurus #vocabulary

Refreshing non-clickbaity piece discusses the history of the format and how industry consolidation contributed to its decline. Mass Market are the smaller, cheaper books, Trade are the larger paperbacks we associate with lit. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Friday Vocabulary for the 50th Friday of 2025: "Be men, my friends. Fight with valor And with a sense of shame before your comrades. You're less likely to be killed with a sense of shame. Running away never won glory or a fight." — Homer, Iliad, V.570-573 (trans. Stanley Lombardo)

This supposed ‘Atlantic’ article … is really from The Onion, right? Right?

Friday Vocabulary for the 49th Friday of 2025: "Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive to work because we've given them too much money." — George Carlin

Friday Vocabulary for the 48th Friday of 2025: "the same basic lesson about showbiz you will learn over and over again—it's all, fundamentally, just a bunch of crap glued together and spray-painted over." — Neil Patrick Harris

Iran’s gonna move the capital from Tehran now that the water’s run dry Yes, climate change … but also foolish consumption and ignoring experts

Friday Vocabulary for the 47th Friday of 2025: "No men are so short-sighted as persecuting men." — Wilkie Collins

Babies are born worshiping unknown gods

And check out the images (highly technical, some of them) in the source

Omg this is so cool Discovered the very first hoofed animal and it isn't a mammal arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Friday Vocabulary for the 46th Friday of 2025 (and a H/T to my wife for this week's leadoff word): "Le présent est mauvais, mais l'avenir est pire. Et l'horloge que je vois ne sonnera que de mauvaises heures." — Jules Michelet

NPR was reporting how 65% of Americans believe that professional sports players change their behavior depending on what's the bookies think the results will be

Free For All "In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: Either donate half of their assets to the common good—or defend them in ritual combat."

This is a really great poem about onions from 1989. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Friday Vocabulary for the 45th Friday of 2025: “Serving God is Doing Good to Man, but Praying is thought an easier Service, and therefore more generally chosen.” — Benjamin Franklin

🎶 Soy objetos de valor In the Louvre, baby, So why don't you steal me

Friday Vocabulary for the 44th Friday of 2025: “I wish that on the day my mother bore me A windstorm had swept me away to a mountain Or into the waves of the restless sea, Swept me away before all this could happen.” — Homer, Iliad, VI.363-366 (Lombardo translation)

“Creatures only use force when they are frightened or unsure of themselves.” — Michael Elder

Friday Vocabulary for the 43rd Friday of 2025: "As a nation we've never been without an answer, even if it's only a Bronx cheer." — Norman Dodge

I’ve found a legitimate concern

Friday Vocabulary for the 42nd Friday of 2025: "The only dependable law in life—everything is always worse than you thought it would be" — Dorothy Parker

Friday Vocabulary for the 41st Friday of 2025: "There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." — Benjamin Franklin

Friday Vocabulary for the 40th Friday of 2025: educatedguesswork.com?p=5105 With today's ten words my Lexicon surpasses 4000 entries! educatedguesswork.com?page_id=2008

"And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty" - John Milton (Paradise Lost, IV.957-958)

Friday Vocabulary for the 39th Friday of 2025: "Ah, it gets later and later every day." — me

Hive five! 🙏 'Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect them against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“the Bible teaches that a government without a benevolent despot of supernatural origin as its leader cannot be a happy experience” — Tim LaHaye