The looming Government Shutdown Theater and annual Failure Theater Kabuki is for after the joys and triumphs of Infrastructure Week!
After much hoopla and delay it might finally be Infrastructure Week! in Washington DC as the US Senate moved procedurally in the first step of passing the more than a trillion dollar infrastructure bill.
Hours after bipartisan Senate negotiators reached a deal on an infrastructure package, the chamber voted to advance it, setting in motion a final vote on the bill in the coming days.
The procedural motion was approved 67–32, with 17 Republicans joining all Democrats to begin legislative action. …
From eagerly wanting to make a rare theater trip to see Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain to actively making sure I never see it
I have confessed often publicly that I don’t enjoy the movie theater experience. At all. There are various reasons for this but the hassle, expense, crowds, and auditory assault of surround sound just isn’t my thing. Those who really enjoy a mass of humanity to share the cinematic experience may go with God and enjoy it but I’m content to wait and just watch at home at my leisure. To cement the point of my uncoolness when it comes to the theater, the last movie I watched at my local theater was the Downton Abbey movie for a 10:30am showing…
The Trump vendetta ride against anyone and everyone he perceives to have slighted him continues apace, now featuring Brett Kavanaugh
The Trump vendetta ride against anyone and everyone he perceives to have slighted him continues apace, and today’s target of opportunity is Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Former President Donald Trump, in a book out Tuesday by Michael Wolff, says he is “very disappointed” in votes by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his own hard-won nominee, and that he “hasn’t had the courage you need to be a great justice.”
Driving the news: “There were so many others I could have appointed, and everyone wanted me to,” Trump told Wolff in an interview for the cheekily titled “Landslide.”
“Where…
Social media like TikTok once again-like money, power, & alcohol-empowers folks to be their selves, and often far too much of themselves.
He might be the first elected official to have his career ended via TikTok, but it is doubtful West Virginia State Delegate Joe Jeffries (R-Putnam) will be the last to have problems with the popular social media app.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice called on Saturday for the resignation of a state lawmaker who posted a sexually explicit TikTok video to his public account.
State Del. Joe Jeffries was stripped of a committee assignment on Friday after word spread of the social media posting, according to a statement from House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, who called his fellow Republican…
Sound & Fury brings both in decadent and luscious portions, but ebbs and flows while delivering its heretical musical sermon.
Spending the better part of a Saturday chasing that long white line brought to mind that the drive to Eden and back would be the perfect time to revisit the artist who sang about doing just that. I first discovered Sturgill Simpson through Chris Bradley’s Saturday Spin featuring his Sound & Fury album. …
These issues inside an organization like the Southern Baptist Convention are not about theology or faith at all, but about power and money
The Southern Baptist Convention is meeting this week in Nashville. 16,000 “messengers” will converge to vote on the message for the forthcoming year, amendments and statements, and elect leadership. The gathering, “Annual Meeting” in the SBC nomenclature, happens every year that isn’t a pandemic, but this year you are going to see plenty of mainstream news coverage of the event. Think of it as an Robert’s Rules of Order, wrapped in a trade convention, but with sermons and singing, while functioning as the world’s largest church business meeting.
But that isn’t why the secular press is all over the SBC…
I do not care for, enjoy, or want to ever again go to Cheesecake Factory. The factory part renders the cheesecake part an unavailing ruckus.
“Why you gotta fight with me at Cheesecake?” Drake asked in his song “Child’s Play”, “You know I love to go there.” Well, I’m not a big fan of half-mumbled autotuned rap either, though I can appreciate it from time to time, so I reckon we aren’t destined to be best friends anytime soon. So it goes with the disappointments we have to live with in life…
Anywho…yes, it is true: I do not care for, enjoy, or want to ever again go to The Cheesecake Factory. Even though I can appreciate it parts of it from time to time.
Thank God for the internet, where old shows that never got their due like Nadia G’s Bitchin Kitchen live forever.
Thank God for the internet, where old shows that never got their due like Bitchin Kitchen live forever. At least, once you go on a treasure hunt to figure out which streaming service had the rights to whatever show you want to watch. Fortunately, I’ve once again tracked down one of my favorites, if short lived, food shows in Nadia G’s Bitchin Kitchen .
The thing about being a food junkie is, like all addictions, it takes you to some very interesting places when you go in search of your fix. Fortunately, we live in the dispensation of time where…
If Kevin McCarthy looks shook, it is because he knows better than any of us this simple truth: There ain’t no such thing as halfway Trump.
Fresh off the heels of the Liz Cheney drama that was ostensibly about not talking about the past, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA23) surprised no one by coming out against the proposed “January 6th commission.”
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he was opposed to a bipartisan agreement struck last week that would create an independent commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
McCarthy’s opposition comes ahead of a vote this week that House Democrats have scheduled to pass legislation to create the panel modeled after the 9/11 Commission that would be tasked with investigating…
After a year and half of mask mandates, you don’t have some insightful hot take on Covid that no one has yet heard by now.
It seems we have been talking about mask mandates non-stop for so long now. For nearly a year and a half the old saying of “letting the mask slip” has played out in real life, revealing quite a bit about many folks beyond the face coverings of the moment and the varying mask mandate rules of our Covid times.
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece for Arc Digital about masks that still, to this day, is the most read piece I’ve ever done on any platform on any subject:
Though not specifically enumerated in the Bill of…
Andrew Donaldson
Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Vet. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag, Writings found @arcdigi & elsewhere. Writing about food, folks, & faith at Yonder & Home
