M. T. Anderson

Groton State Park.

Swamp symmetries.

This must be in the same family as goutweed (which also just went to seed) and Queen Anne’s lace (which here, at least, is still going strong)…? All part of the sort of yarrowy family?

The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged? — Robert Reich

Love that piece! It’s so metal — such power-chord thrashing — even includes a moment to smash the guitar on stage.

Hahaha

Wow. You really gotta have some chutzpah to discover there are multiple earths and still name yours Earth 1.

Same!

And why so many characters in books have names starting with A and B.

Somewhat arbitrary, but I find myself going for French Baroque in the spring (fresh, sensuous flourishing), English Baroque in the summer (tidy, satisfied), German and Italian Baroque in the fall (rich and valedictory), and medieval in the winter (get down on your knees in a chilly chapel and pray).

Hahaha

Even more important: white collar crime (financial crime) accounts for literally a few billion dollars more damage than petty theft. The crimes of the wealthy cost us much more and ruin many more lives than the crimes of the poor.

A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig

My wrist hurts just thinking of it.

The same could be said for libraries.

So what do we think?

And the writer was like, “Same, buddy.”

Hell: There’s a fun Satanic hymn — apparently a satire — by medieval leper and Vatican secretary Zacara de Teremo, “Deus Deorum, Pluto.” (He’s a fascinating composer and wrote other pieces that might fit into your rubric.)

Yes!!!

Remember Dennis Hastert?

The struggle is real: I hate small plates.

What if we are the “planet of the knob heads”?