This week's sporkful

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

A different kind of break: 7 books to know me

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In terms of topics that I am interested in, I am seeing so much ignorance and malfeasance that I am having a hard time stringing thoughts to...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Children's books for hard times

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In August I just happened to come across multiple children's books that were really about processing grief. I was very touched by them. ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

News you might be able to use

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This week I learned of someone's car being stolen from the a dealer's lot after having been dropped off for service.  (I do not know...
Friday, May 19, 2023

May Daily Songs: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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I usually wait to post about the songs until after I have played them all, but I don't know that it's really necessary. It may very ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Don't Forget to Vote!

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I know, I thought I was done. I keep seeing reminders about the election, though, even though my ballot was turned in two weeks ago. I guess...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Movies: The Woman King and Till

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I am not putting these two movies in opposition to each other. I will do some comparison on the roles they fill. I mentioned last week that...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Spotting school board fascists

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My sister recently saw a Facebook post about how you can recognize the more fascist candidates by how many signs they have. For that, the cl...
Friday, May 05, 2023

April Daily Songs: Top Songs 1991 - 1994

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I know I said I was going to write more about the movie from last week today, but I realized there is one more movie I have been meaning to ...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

School Board Elections: Don't let the fascists win!

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My Sunday blog and this blog seem to be colliding more lately. Sunday I posted about being caught off guard by school board elections. https...
Friday, April 28, 2023

The "Actor": Dissecting his words

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You may already be aware of Entertainment Weekly interviewing four anonymous Oscar voters: an actor, a director, a marketing specialist, an...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

What are you doing?

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The last post ended with a question: what are we going to do? As I have been thinking over some of these topics, I have been thinking that ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Model Minority

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I am embarrassed to see that I did not mention one of the key sources for last week's post: From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killin...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: 1994 - 2011

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When Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed in 2011, I remember it being a big deal, with people finding it to be a good step forward. I ...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Not justice

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I did not post last Friday. This was not for a lack of material, but kind of too much material (but also work being busier and the tiredness...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Concerted effort

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For examples of dunking not being helpful, one is playing out in real time with Kentucky governor Andy Beshear. A Democrat, he has tried ve...
Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Dunking

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This post is primarily inspired by two recent occurrences, and the delight they caused liberal/progressive/leftist people: Bethany Mandel no...
Friday, March 31, 2023

I did not like "Inside"

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I do not appreciate all of these streaming channels with exclusive content where you need to be subscribed to have access to certain materia...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Waking

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Exciting sneak preview for next week: I am going to reference Bethany Mandel not being able to define "woke".  It's not even a...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Motown and Stax Records: Daily Songs

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I had probably started thinking about focusing on Motown for the daily songs before I went to the Oregon Historical Society; that started af...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Two stories

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I may have told one of these stories before, but I know I haven't told the other one. Here is the good story. A few years ago I was talk...
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