Expatriarch
@expatriarchkeys.bsky.social
Africa expert, Red Sox fan, stay-at-home dad, obsessive new country visitor. Blogs at expatriarch.substack.com
I always associate Xmas with Basotho hats.
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I always associate Xmas with Basotho hats.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
I never realized that the narrator in the classic Xmas revels album is Robert J Lurtsema, then host on morning pro-musica. I didn’t recognize his voice when connected to emotion of pace of any kind.
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I never realized that the narrator in the classic Xmas revels album is Robert J Lurtsema, then host on morning pro-musica. I didn’t recognize his voice when connected to emotion of pace of any kind.
“But the best explanation (for the Xmas Blues) is that this is simply the cost of being a stay-at-home parent at #Christmas time. It’s not that anything is particularly bad; it’s just that everything bad is particular.”
But hopefully these 12 tips from my blog will help you have a merrier #Xmas.
But hopefully these 12 tips from my blog will help you have a merrier #Xmas.
12 Ways to Beat Those Xmas Blues
One might even be a good idea
expatriarch.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“But the best explanation (for the Xmas Blues) is that this is simply the cost of being a stay-at-home parent at #Christmas time. It’s not that anything is particularly bad; it’s just that everything bad is particular.”
But hopefully these 12 tips from my blog will help you have a merrier #Xmas.
But hopefully these 12 tips from my blog will help you have a merrier #Xmas.
In the spirit of #turkeyday, let me share this #mst3k memory. When watching The Pod People, the child charachter says to the Alia. “Trumpy, you can do magic!” To which Crow adds “It’s called evil kid.”
Rings different today.
Rings different today.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In the spirit of #turkeyday, let me share this #mst3k memory. When watching The Pod People, the child charachter says to the Alia. “Trumpy, you can do magic!” To which Crow adds “It’s called evil kid.”
Rings different today.
Rings different today.
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I was today year's old when I learned that the musical Godspell played a 5-month run in #Maseru, #Lesotho in 1973 as the first shows at the then-Holiday Inn in Maseru.
It would later play #Wits Theatre in #Johannesburg to a mixed-race audience in 1974. Wild times!
It would later play #Wits Theatre in #Johannesburg to a mixed-race audience in 1974. Wild times!
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I was today year's old when I learned that the musical Godspell played a 5-month run in #Maseru, #Lesotho in 1973 as the first shows at the then-Holiday Inn in Maseru.
It would later play #Wits Theatre in #Johannesburg to a mixed-race audience in 1974. Wild times!
It would later play #Wits Theatre in #Johannesburg to a mixed-race audience in 1974. Wild times!
A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of thought leadership...Perhaps it is easier to explain thought leaders in terms of what we are not. We are absolutely, positively not thought followers.
Take Me to Your Thought Leader
How an American Africa expert deals with moving to Geneva and becoming a stay-at-home dad. Featuring lots of parenting, lots of travel, and a little bit of whining.
substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of thought leadership...Perhaps it is easier to explain thought leaders in terms of what we are not. We are absolutely, positively not thought followers.
Sunset reflected in a building near Geneva’s airport
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sunset reflected in a building near Geneva’s airport
We moved to Geneva so my wife could run GAVI: The Vaccine Alliance’s HPV vaccine program. They’ve now hit their target of vaccinating 86 million girls, which will save 1.4 million lives. Naturally, I’m trying to figure out how much credit I get. (Hint: None.)
A Mathematical Proof that I Saved 140 Lives
Obviously I didn't, but the HPV vaccine is going to save 1.4 million
expatriarch.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We moved to Geneva so my wife could run GAVI: The Vaccine Alliance’s HPV vaccine program. They’ve now hit their target of vaccinating 86 million girls, which will save 1.4 million lives. Naturally, I’m trying to figure out how much credit I get. (Hint: None.)
Seems like a good time to recall that the Secretary of Ed is married to someone Trump let off the hook for human trafficking.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Seems like a good time to recall that the Secretary of Ed is married to someone Trump let off the hook for human trafficking.
The #JaylenBrown hair saga is saving the #Celtics season. He should start doing it like the WWE Blue Blazer bit . Makeit ever more ridiculous looking while declaring it's real. Then one day, he should just show up with blonde spray hair and insist it's "natural Butch Reed style.
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The #JaylenBrown hair saga is saving the #Celtics season. He should start doing it like the WWE Blue Blazer bit . Makeit ever more ridiculous looking while declaring it's real. Then one day, he should just show up with blonde spray hair and insist it's "natural Butch Reed style.
Super coverage of some bad, bad stuff in Tanzania.
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent
Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed.
Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent
Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed.
Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Super coverage of some bad, bad stuff in Tanzania.
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your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court
Apparently, even if you tell people to buy someone's book, they don't like it when your review calls them obnoxious and questions them for glorifying the Jedi.
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Apparently, even if you tell people to buy someone's book, they don't like it when your review calls them obnoxious and questions them for glorifying the Jedi.
Aid Inferno isa work that is pointed, obnoxious, occasionally poorly proofread, draws over-general conclusions from her World Bank experience, ignores the spectacular success of health aid, glorifies the Jedi, cites probable lunatics; and is nevertheless insightful, heartbreaking, right about a lot,
There's an "Aid Inferno?" But Who Set the Fire?
A Flawed and Sometimes Obnoxious But Still Important Book
expatriarch.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Aid Inferno isa work that is pointed, obnoxious, occasionally poorly proofread, draws over-general conclusions from her World Bank experience, ignores the spectacular success of health aid, glorifies the Jedi, cites probable lunatics; and is nevertheless insightful, heartbreaking, right about a lot,
Just saw someone refer to #JDVance as a real life Starscream. It's perfect
a red and white robot with a gun on its back
ALT: a red and white robot with a gun on its back
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Just saw someone refer to #JDVance as a real life Starscream. It's perfect
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Thank god he was wearing the vest.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thank god he was wearing the vest.
A few weeks ago, when my little USAID rant was blowing up, one commenter, who I do not know, asked me a question that was at first glance irritating, at second glance fair, and at third glance existentially important (to me--not you). "In what way are you a Malawi expert?"
"In what way are you a Malawi expert?"
A snarky answer to a fair question, or a fair answer to a snarky question?
expatriarch.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A few weeks ago, when my little USAID rant was blowing up, one commenter, who I do not know, asked me a question that was at first glance irritating, at second glance fair, and at third glance existentially important (to me--not you). "In what way are you a Malawi expert?"
The Washington Post is now giving op-ed space to actual Washington Times writers.
This is one step away from the Globe giving Howie Carr a column.
This is one step away from the Globe giving Howie Carr a column.
November 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Washington Post is now giving op-ed space to actual Washington Times writers.
This is one step away from the Globe giving Howie Carr a column.
This is one step away from the Globe giving Howie Carr a column.
I love baseball so much, and I loved being up in the middle of the night for that epic game. My heart is breaking for the #Jays fans in my life. I don't think anyone, choked, it's just that baseball is "designed to break your heart."
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I love baseball so much, and I loved being up in the middle of the night for that epic game. My heart is breaking for the #Jays fans in my life. I don't think anyone, choked, it's just that baseball is "designed to break your heart."
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November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I love baseball so much.
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I love baseball so much.
superb piece of journalism, this is also horrible.
Yeah this is good work and also *what the hell*
This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
superb piece of journalism, this is also horrible.
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There are 4 times more signatories to this 24-hour-old petition than there are "refugees".
www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za/en
"We are not pawns in America’s culture wars. We are South Africans, part of a diverse, evolving nation still grappling with its past and striving toward a more just future...."
www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za/en
"We are not pawns in America’s culture wars. We are South Africans, part of a diverse, evolving nation still grappling with its past and striving toward a more just future...."
Home | Afrikaners Vir Sa
www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za
October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There are 4 times more signatories to this 24-hour-old petition than there are "refugees".
www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za/en
"We are not pawns in America’s culture wars. We are South Africans, part of a diverse, evolving nation still grappling with its past and striving toward a more just future...."
www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za/en
"We are not pawns in America’s culture wars. We are South Africans, part of a diverse, evolving nation still grappling with its past and striving toward a more just future...."