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We have a Christmas post about Christmas stories
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Christmas stories - Verities and Vagaries
The problem with composing a Christmas post is thinking of anything even remotely interesting to say. The themes have been tropes for centuries now: family, generosity, joy, the birth of a little bugg...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/22/christmas-stories/
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We have a Christmas post about Christmas stories
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Christmas stories - Verities and Vagaries
The problem with composing a Christmas post is thinking of anything even remotely interesting to say. The themes have been tropes for centuries now: family, generosity, joy, the birth of a little bugg...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/22/christmas-stories/
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Some favorites of 2025
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Favorites, 2025 - Verities and Vagaries
Getting towards the end of the year over here at V&V (and apparently everywhere else), and so it seems appropriate (like everywhere else) to post some favorites of the year. Here, in really no order, ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/09/favorites-2025/
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I see nobody liked being reminded that lazy sunday was 20 years ago
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Today we are celebrating YouTube's 20th birthday (the anniversary of SNL's Lazy Sunday)
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Happy 20th birthday YouTube - Verities and Vagaries
On this day twenty years ago, December 17, 2005, YouTube was born. By which I mean the SNL Digital Short "Lazy Sunday" was aired during an episode featuring guest host Jack Black and musical guest Nei...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/17/happy-20th-birthday-youtube/
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Today we are celebrating YouTube's 20th birthday (the anniversary of SNL's Lazy Sunday)
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Happy 20th birthday YouTube - Verities and Vagaries
On this day twenty years ago, December 17, 2005, YouTube was born. By which I mean the SNL Digital Short "Lazy Sunday" was aired during an episode featuring guest host Jack Black and musical guest Nei...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/17/happy-20th-birthday-youtube/
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We're wasting so much time on this asshole
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Opportunity cost - Verities and Vagaries
We have wasted so much fucking time on this asshole. A constant theme of my posts since we have been back is how long it is going to take to get back to where we were before this asshole rode down tha...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/16/opportunity-cost/
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New post is about Bush v. Gore, a decision that has aged like fine cat shit
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Great moments in judicial history - Verities and Vagaries
Oh, hey, look: it's December 12. Season's greetings. December 12 is, among a very elite few, one of the worst days in and for American democracy. On this date, 25 years ago, the Supreme Court decided ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/12/great-moments-in-judicial-history/
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New post is about Bush v. Gore, a decision that has aged like fine cat shit
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Great moments in judicial history - Verities and Vagaries
Oh, hey, look: it's December 12. Season's greetings. December 12 is, among a very elite few, one of the worst days in and for American democracy. On this date, 25 years ago, the Supreme Court decided ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/12/great-moments-in-judicial-history/
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We got some favorites of 2025 here
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Favorites, 2025 - Verities and Vagaries
Getting towards the end of the year over here at V&V (and apparently everywhere else), and so it seems appropriate (like everywhere else) to post some favorites of the year. Here, in really no order, ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/09/favorites-2025/
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One of our writers has posted their favorites of 2025
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Favorites, 2025 - Verities and Vagaries
Getting towards the end of the year over here at V&V (and apparently everywhere else), and so it seems appropriate (like everywhere else) to post some favorites of the year. Here, in really no order, ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/09/favorites-2025/
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Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
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The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
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Here is your hump-day song of the week:
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Hump-Day Song of the Week: Day In The Sun (Gettin’ Wit U) by De La Soul - Verities and Vagaries
De La Soul are back with their 9th album, Cabin in the Sky, and while it is definitely missing Plug 2, it's almost certainly up there in my favorite records of 2025.
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/03/hump-day-song-of-the-week-day-in-the-sun-gettin-wit-u-by-de-la-soul/
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This World AIDS Day, we honor the voices and activism that shaped the global fight against HIV/AIDS. "Victory Deferred"—a defining history of the crisis by journalist John-Manuel Andriote—is now an open access edition, free for all to read on the Internet Archive:
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With many NWSL superstars moving overseas, can the league survive having a salary cap?
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No cap - Verities and Vagaries
It's so fun watching a sports league shoot itself in the foot. Well, not fun, honestly. Just, like kind of funny but really both disappointing and embarrassing. No, I'm surprisingly not talking about ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/21/no-cap/
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With many NWSL superstars moving overseas, can the league survive having a salary cap?
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No cap - Verities and Vagaries
It's so fun watching a sports league shoot itself in the foot. Well, not fun, honestly. Just, like kind of funny but really both disappointing and embarrassing. No, I'm surprisingly not talking about ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/21/no-cap/
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Here's your hump-day song of the week:
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Hump-Day Song of the Week – “Car Alarm” by Gladie - Verities and Vagaries
Let's bring this feature back. This blog needs more less depressing posts. Here's the new track from Gladie; the song rocks.
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/19/hump-day-song-of-the-week-car-alarm-by-gladie/
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What on earth could a reading of a psalm have to do with a habit of reading fantasy novels, the reader would ask
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/dragon-books/
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RIP the penny
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Killing Lincoln - Verities and Vagaries
Today is the last day the penny will be in production in the United States. It will probably go out unnoticed for the most part, as durable as the reddish currency has been for centuries. Made now out...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/12/killing-lincoln/
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The Berlin Wall came down 36 years ago this week. What that tells us about walls:
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/on-walls/
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What on earth could a reading of a psalm have to do with a habit of reading fantasy novels, the reader would ask
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/dragon-books/
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RIP the penny
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Killing Lincoln - Verities and Vagaries
Today is the last day the penny will be in production in the United States. It will probably go out unnoticed for the most part, as durable as the reddish currency has been for centuries. Made now out...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/12/killing-lincoln/
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The Berlin Wall came down 36 years ago this week. What that tells us about walls:
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/on-walls/
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The Berlin Wall fell down 36 years ago yesterday. A post about that and what walls mean in general:
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/on-walls/
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/10/on-walls/
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Sandwich guy acquitted
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/sandwich-guy-acquitted-and-towards-a-universal-definition-of-what-is-not-crime/
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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
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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,...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/pelosi-retiring/
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Democrat won big in this week's elections—is there anything to learn?
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/libbing-out-or-what-we-did-last-night/
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"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." 🎁:
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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Wrote about Psalm 2 for some reason
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/dragon-books/
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Sandwich guy acquitted
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/sandwich-guy-acquitted-and-towards-a-universal-definition-of-what-is-not-crime/
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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
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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,...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/pelosi-retiring/
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On Nancy Pelosi retiring
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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,...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/pelosi-retiring/
about 2 months ago
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On Nancy Pelosi retiring
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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,...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/06/pelosi-retiring/
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Democrat won big in this week's elections—is there anything to learn?
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/libbing-out-or-what-we-did-last-night/
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Are there actually any big lessons we can learn from yesterday's elections?
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/05/libbing-out-or-what-we-did-last-night/
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Writing my elections postmortem by cleaning up the archives. That's how it works right
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Looking through the archives, it's amazing how many ancient campaign ads are still alive on youtube
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2010/05/27/have-you-met-les-phillip-the-american-patriot-running-for-congress-from-alabama/
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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
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/12/the-two-ways/
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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
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/24/what-cutting-down-a-couple-trees-tells-us-about-d-c-statehood/
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From the deep archives:
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2010/03/14/forget-about-the-money-i-want-my-hour-back/
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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)
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/dragon-books/
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A tale of two search engines
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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:
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/31/a-tale-of-two-search-engines/
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A tale of two search engines
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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:
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/31/a-tale-of-two-search-engines/
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What cutting down some trees tells us about D.C. statehood
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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...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/24/what-cutting-down-a-couple-trees-tells-us-about-d-c-statehood/
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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)
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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 ...
https://www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/dragon-books/
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