Analytic philosophers are like: “I call this problem ‘Quine’s trilemma’ but I do not wish to suggest by that that I think it is related in any way to Quine’s work, is a trilemma, or is a problem.”
As others have said, A Function of Social Settlements and excepts from Democracy and Social Ethics.
I also sometimes assign Ida B Wells’s response to her on lynchings and Anna Julia Cooper’s critique of the settlement movement.
Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, be-hatted
The lode of Joan Blondell & Glenda Farrell films currently available on Watch TCM (in the US) is keeping me going through an exhausting April. Using my rare, spare minutes on these Pre-Code gems is a salve you might also benefit from.
What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
Players this game needs:
- long-ball passers (Yohannes, Davidson)
- defenders who stay home (Girma)
Players who may struggle:
- fancy dribblers (Lavelle, A. Thompson)
- backs who play high (Patterson, G. Thompson)
- players who get called for fouls but don't draw them equally (Heaps, Sonnett)
Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, be-hatted
The lode of Joan Blondell & Glenda Farrell films currently available on Watch TCM (in the US) is keeping me going through an exhausting April. Using my rare, spare minutes on these Pre-Code gems is a salve you might also benefit from.
My first thought when I read this was, well, that makes an Aurora bid even harder.
Keep me in the loop, please.
I thought my kids' Roman Empire was Minecraft or Rimworld, but I started listening to Mary Beard's SPQR with the older two and they immediately objected to her proposed end date of the empire and offered their own, so maybe my kids' Roman Empire really is the Roman Empire.
A bed slides down, with Wallace of Wallace and Gromit sliding through the floor. He is stuck and a giant mallet prepares to knock him through.
fiction, but I like this story by Lauren Groff, especially the looking into windows bit
I grew up in Wisconsin. Never heard that once. But we do use Sconnie.
One week left to submit your panel proposals:
#philsky
For those, like me, who have been anxiously awaiting a chance to see Julia Loktev's My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, it is now streaming on MUBI in the US.
Minutes of defending per tackle (using Fotmob data):
Boston (1.8)
Utah (1.8)
Washington (1.9)
San Diego (2.0)
Seattle (2.0)
Houston (2.3)
Bay FC (2.3)
Angel City (2.4)
Gotham (2.4)
North Carolina (2.5)
Kansas City (2.7)
Orlando (2.7)
Portland (2.8)
Denver (2.9)
Louisville (2.9)
Chicago (3.1) ⬅️⬅️⬅️
Sitting here with my computer in front of me is not helping anyone, certainly not me.
I'm going to water my garden, brush my dogs, listen to the birds, read a book.
Anything but wait and see.
Promoting Avengers with a photo of all one’s eggs in one’s basket, huh
I hereby move to rename Orion the Spread Eagle.
Come to Clarksdale, MS Friday for Thacker Mountain Radio! Music by blues legend Bobby Rush, Twurt Chamberlain, and Paul Tate and the Yallowbushwackers. I’ll be there as well, talking with host Jim Dee’s about my book “When It’s Darkness on the Delta.” Bring a lawn chair!
Depluralize a movie:
ONE BATTLE
LA peeps: If you were eastbound on the 101 near Woodman at 6:30 and saw a white Dodge Charger rear end a white Chevy Bolt and then drive off, that was not an allegory. That was someone plowing into my car. We’re fine it seems; the back of the car is a mess. I didn’t get the plate; hmu if you did
Sentnor, Debinha, and Bethune might crack the multiverse physics of colocation before they figure out how not to occupy the same space tactically.
Imagine a version of the KC Current where Bethune is not repeatedly running into her teammates.
I sent this to my 13yo without context. Their response:
Who wrote this and why.
Also good job horse.
They brought in soloists, but yes they have a really good music (and theater) program. Last year was the Messiah in their “masterworks” series.
In the last month, in my small college town:
Mozart’s Requiem (local high school)
Verdi’s Requiem (nearest city’s symphony plus college choirs)
Heather Sorenson’s Requiem (local church)
What could possibly have happened in the last fifteen months for these all to be planned?
Took a little longer than I expected but...
4/2/26
"Greek chicken" (our family's name for grilled chicken [usually lemon and herb marinade, but tonight a schwarma blend], tzaziki, cucumbers, and spinach/lettuce on pita -- it's in the regular rotation)
a two-halved hot pot in background baby boy choy in foreground
4/1/26
hot pot ("plain" one side, "Korean" [doenjang base] on the other; thinly sliced frozen salmon, extra firm tofu, baby bok choy, scallions, and ramen noodles)