“Mistah Kurtz – he dead” is the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” (1925) our poem of the week. The entire poem can be read here. The opening line is itself a quote from ...

“Mistah Kurtz – he dead” is the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” (1925) our poem of the week. Then entire poem can be read here. The opening line is itself a quote from ...

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3 days ago · Here we are, more than a week into the war against Iran, and the United Kingdom is still unable to deploy a single Naval ship into the Mediterranean Sea to protect its interests on the Island …

Feb 28, 2026 · So I gather “mogging,” and/or “mogged” is the new hip term for . . . something . . . among the Gen Z or Millennials, like “flexing” a decade ago. And it seems “maxxing” goes with ...

Feb 14, 2026 · It was a big week in the news. Marco Rubio went to Munich and mounted an eloquent defense of Western civilization. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tagged along, and proved herself not very …

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Dec 20, 2025 · Okay, John Hinderaker went and did it last week! He has abused his stewardship of TWiP and went full Die Hard Christmas Movie Denialist! As the Dude says in The Big Lebowski, this …

Jan 24, 2026 · Minnesota can’t seem to get out of the news. Once a placid backwater, the state has now become synonymous with bats**t crazy. ICE came to town, and it brought left-wingers, both native ...

Mar 8, 2025 · Somehow this is the week that the Memosphere decided that J.D. Vance needed to be the newest object of memortalization. (Yes, I made up that word.) I kept chanting to myself, “Musk. Not. …