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  • CSotD: Mothers and other relationships Mike Peterson
    I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became […]
     

CSotD: Mothers and other relationships

10 May 2026 at 11:45
I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became […]

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  • CSotD: Civilization and Its Malcontents Mike Peterson
    Fell cuts through the analysis and legal deconstruction and reminds us that racism is real, which, at heart, is all you really have to know. Some racism is intentional and conspiratorial, like redistricting to keep Black candidates out of office or requiring bogus literacy tests to keep Black citizens from qualifying to vote. But it […]
     

CSotD: Civilization and Its Malcontents

5 May 2026 at 11:52
Fell cuts through the analysis and legal deconstruction and reminds us that racism is real, which, at heart, is all you really have to know. Some racism is intentional and conspiratorial, like redistricting to keep Black candidates out of office or requiring bogus literacy tests to keep Black citizens from qualifying to vote. But it […]

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  • CSotD: The Golden Spider’s Touch Mike Peterson
    I like Chilton’s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isn’t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as […]
     

CSotD: The Golden Spider’s Touch

31 May 2026 at 13:00
I like Chilton’s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isn’t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as […]

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  • Rolling Stone Excerpt of TrudeauΒ & Doonesbury: A Biography Alan Gardner
    Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography TrudeauΒ & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: β€œHow cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became aΒ Rolling StoneΒ writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]
     

Rolling Stone Excerpt of TrudeauΒ & Doonesbury: A Biography

19 May 2026 at 20:53
Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography TrudeauΒ & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: β€œHow cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became aΒ Rolling StoneΒ writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]

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  • The Best Mystery Series of All Time Is Surging on Streaming 30 Years After It Ended Shawn Van Horn
    In the 1980s, male protagonists dominated TV detective mysteries. Tom Selleck was the epitome of cool on Magnum, P.I., as were Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas on Miami Vice, while Simon & Simon paired Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker together as private investigator brothers. One small-screen detective, however, was not like the others. In 1984, Murder, She Wrote debuted on CBS, starring the near-60-year-old Angela Lansbury in the lead role of Jessica Fletcher. Today, 30 years after i
     

The Best Mystery Series of All Time Is Surging on Streaming 30 Years After It Ended

6 June 2026 at 23:52

In the 1980s, male protagonists dominated TV detective mysteries. Tom Selleck was the epitome of cool on Magnum, P.I., as were Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas on Miami Vice, while Simon & Simon paired Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker together as private investigator brothers. One small-screen detective, however, was not like the others. In 1984, Murder, She Wrote debuted on CBS, starring the near-60-year-old Angela Lansbury in the lead role of Jessica Fletcher. Today, 30 years after its last episode aired in 1996, Murder, She Wrote is still a big streaming hit, now topping the charts on the Apple TV store.

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