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One of those web logs from the 2000s but still around for some reason
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We got a 2026 predictions post like everybody else www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/02/p...
Predictions, 2026 - Verities and Vagaries
Wow still not used to typing "2026" even this late into the year. Anyways, everybody else is doing predictions, why not us? Let's get started. The economy will finally break down Trump does seem to ha...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
We got a 2026 predictions post like everybody else www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/02/p...
Here's your V&V Hump-Day Song of the Week: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/07/h...
Hump-Day Song of the Week: DEATH CULT ZOMBIE by Genesis Owusu - Verities and Vagaries
Here's a song so we can get the depressing January 6 post off the top of the front page but also the song rules. So: win, win.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Five years ago www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/06/j...
January 6 - Verities and Vagaries
Five years ago, the President of the United States instigated a violent insurrection with the aim of retaining power despite losing the presidential election. Somehow, no action was taken about this, ...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Five years ago www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/06/j...
Yeah I have some questions www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/03/q...
Questions - Verities and Vagaries
What the fuck? No, seriously. What the fuck. Did Donald Trump actually order an assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its leader? Is this a dream? Are we dead and this is hell? Did he really fuck...
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January 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Yeah I have some questions www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/03/q...
We got a 2026 predictions post like everybody else www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/02/p...
Predictions, 2026 - Verities and Vagaries
Wow still not used to typing "2026" even this late into the year. Anyways, everybody else is doing predictions, why not us? Let's get started. The economy will finally break down Trump does seem to ha...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
We got a 2026 predictions post like everybody else www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2026/01/02/p...
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We did some posts in 2025, some of which may be still okay www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/28/p...
Published, 2025 - Verities and Vagaries
What a year it has been, huh? Well, lots of blogs are pumping out their best posts of the year, and, well, we didn't pump out that many posts, so here's just a general list of what we published this y...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
We did some posts in 2025, some of which may be still okay www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/28/p...
We did some posts in 2025, some of which may be still okay www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/28/p...
Published, 2025 - Verities and Vagaries
What a year it has been, huh? Well, lots of blogs are pumping out their best posts of the year, and, well, we didn't pump out that many posts, so here's just a general list of what we published this y...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
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Published, 2025 - Verities and Vagaries
What a year it has been, huh? Well, lots of blogs are pumping out their best posts of the year, and, well, we didn't pump out that many posts, so here's just a general list of what we published this y...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Hey! More favorites from 2025! www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/25/f...
Favorites, 2025! Part Deux - Verities and Vagaries
Ok, the chanukiah has burned out, the middle school band smashed Hot Cross Buns in the winter solstice concert, and you’ve listened to Fairytale of New York. With the end properly near, let me add to ...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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We have a Christmas post about Christmas stories www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/22/c...
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...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Some favorites of 2025 www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/09/f...
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, ...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Some favorites of 2025 www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/09/f...
Today we are celebrating YouTube's 20th birthday (the anniversary of SNL's Lazy Sunday) www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/17/h...
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...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Today we are celebrating YouTube's 20th birthday (the anniversary of SNL's Lazy Sunday) www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/17/h...
We're wasting so much time on this asshole www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/16/o...
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...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We're wasting so much time on this asshole www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/16/o...
New post is about Bush v. Gore, a decision that has aged like fine cat shit www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/12/g...
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 ...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New post is about Bush v. Gore, a decision that has aged like fine cat shit www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/12/g...
We got some favorites of 2025 here www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/09/f...
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, ...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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One of our writers has posted their favorites of 2025 www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/12/09/f...
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, ...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
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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December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
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.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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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: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/a...
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/a...
With many NWSL superstars moving overseas, can the league survive having a salary cap? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/21/n...
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 ...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
With many NWSL superstars moving overseas, can the league survive having a salary cap? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/21/n...
Here's your hump-day song of the week: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/19/h...
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.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Here's your hump-day song of the week: www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/19/h...
What on earth could a reading of a psalm have to do with a habit of reading fantasy novels, the reader would ask www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/d...
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 ...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
What on earth could a reading of a psalm have to do with a habit of reading fantasy novels, the reader would ask www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/22/d...
RIP the penny www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/12/k...
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...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
RIP the penny www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/11/12/k...