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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 2d

Thoughts on Janet Mills running for senate
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What are they thinking? - Verities and Vagaries

Janet Mills, former Democratic governor of Maine, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Many have described this as a "coup," specifically for Sen. Chuck Schumer, who wants to rega...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 2d

Why are Democrats lining up behind a 77-year-old candidate for a body that runs on seniority?

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What are they thinking? - Verities and Vagaries

Janet Mills, former Democratic governor of Maine, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Many have described this as a "coup," specifically for Sen. Chuck Schumer, who wants to rega...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 2d

Thoughts on Janet Mills running for senate
www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/10/w...

What are they thinking? - Verities and Vagaries

Janet Mills, former Democratic governor of Maine, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Many have described this as a "coup," specifically for Sen. Chuck Schumer, who wants to rega...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 2d

Why are Democrats lining up behind a 77-year-old candidate for a body that runs on seniority?

www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/10/10/w...

What are they thinking? - Verities and Vagaries

Janet Mills, former Democratic governor of Maine, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Many have described this as a "coup," specifically for Sen. Chuck Schumer, who wants to rega...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 28d

In which I tell you about Patch the Pirate, a Christian fundamentalist pop music idol, and get really into a psalm www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/12/t...

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...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 20d

The Rapture is bullshit www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/22/r...

Rapture ready - Verities and Vagaries

Well, lol, tomorrow's supposed to be "the Rapture." Are you Rapture Ready™? Those of us who grew up in fundamentalist/evangelical confines can probably readily remember the phrase "Rapture Ready." We'...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 21d

Write a damned email www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/21/e...

Emails - Verities and Vagaries

Instead of writing a post tonight I wrote an email to a friend. Remember that? Writing an email to a friend? It was like letters that you would send, through the post office. "Remember me when I am ki...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 19d

No rapture today. Wonder why.

Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 20d

The Rapture is bullshit www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/22/r...

Rapture ready - Verities and Vagaries

Well, lol, tomorrow's supposed to be "the Rapture." Are you Rapture Ready™? Those of us who grew up in fundamentalist/evangelical confines can probably readily remember the phrase "Rapture Ready." We'...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 20d

The Rapture is bullshit www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/22/r...

Rapture ready - Verities and Vagaries

Well, lol, tomorrow's supposed to be "the Rapture." Are you Rapture Ready™? Those of us who grew up in fundamentalist/evangelical confines can probably readily remember the phrase "Rapture Ready." We'...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 21d

Write a damned email www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/21/e...

Emails - Verities and Vagaries

Instead of writing a post tonight I wrote an email to a friend. Remember that? Writing an email to a friend? It was like letters that you would send, through the post office. "Remember me when I am ki...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · 28d

In which I tell you about Patch the Pirate, a Christian fundamentalist pop music idol, and get really into a psalm www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/09/12/t...

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...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 20

We hereby interrupt our long string of depressing posts to extol the virtues of garage season™ www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/19/i...

In the Garage - Verities and Vagaries

Garage season brings a smile. The bay door is up and the back door is propped open with a lawn bag of branches trimmed off the hedge earlier in the week. The openness allows a nice cross breeze as I s...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 24

New post about TV, whatever that is www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/23/w...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 24

I wake up, in what amounts to some kind of haze. I’ve never been much of a morning person, so usually it takes an hour or so to just get back to cogent thought. If I have nothing urgent to do (work, or commuting to work, or the sporadic brunch appointment), I’ll shuffle downstairs, plop onto the couch, and throw on the television.

What do I watch? Who cares. It doesn’t matter. So I fire up Hulu with Live TV, the modern equivalent of cable, and see what is airing live. Turns out, these days, it’s nothing. Like they said, lots of channels but nothing’s on. But it’s becoming more and more true every day. USA is just Law and Order. TNT is, well, I don’t know because it doesn’t have anything but basketball but now it doesn’t even have basketball anymore. TBS probably has a bad sitcom—it usually does. The broadcast networks are just airing morning shows or commercials. Comedy Central just has a ninth-season Office episode. No, there’s nothing on here.

Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 24

New post about TV, whatever that is www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/23/w...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 20

We hereby interrupt our long string of depressing posts to extol the virtues of garage season™ www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/19/i...

In the Garage - Verities and Vagaries

Garage season brings a smile. The bay door is up and the back door is propped open with a lawn bag of branches trimmed off the hedge earlier in the week. The openness allows a nice cross breeze as I s...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 18

new post it's not good but whatever www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/17/f...

From occupied DC - Verities and Vagaries

How does it feel to live in an occupied city? Well, it fucking sucks, man. How does all this feel? It fucking sucks, man. In case you're unaware because you've been living under a rock for the past we...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 8

Did the internet somehow break while I was away? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/08/p...

Plumbing the series of tubes - Verities and Vagaries

Did the internet somehow break while I was away? Did something change in the past 30 or so years since the internet went mainstream? Because there are a couple of weird undercurrents happening right n...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 9

The cool thing about having a blog is google can't find it but the spam bots certainly can

Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 8

Maybe I’m biased here because I truly don’t give a shit what kids see. I mean, you can try and keep a teen from looking at pictures of naked people online, but you will never succeed. It’s like trying to grasp water in your hand. And did 30 years of teens finding pictures of naked people on the internet take down society? Well, I guess in a way it did. But not in a way that will be changed whatsoever by mandating an age identification moat.

Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 8

Been a couple of weeks, but back today with a new post about the internet www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/08/p...

Plumbing the series of tubes - Verities and Vagaries

Did the internet somehow break while I was away? Did something change in the past 30 or so years since the internet went mainstream? Because there are a couple of weird undercurrents happening right n...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 8

Did the internet somehow break while I was away? www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/08/p...

Plumbing the series of tubes - Verities and Vagaries

Did the internet somehow break while I was away? Did something change in the past 30 or so years since the internet went mainstream? Because there are a couple of weird undercurrents happening right n...

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Verities and Vagaries @veritiesandvagaries.com · Aug 3

Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated www.veritiesandvagaries.com/2025/08/01/r...

Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated - Verities and Vagaries

We're not dead, I promise! Some of us just went on vacation and have spent the last week trying to catch up on what's been happening on the internet. Wouldn't want to be redundant or duplicative, you ...

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