by CPRM | Sep 24, 2024 | History, Travel
After I had to drop out of college in Las Vegas to move back home to deal with family issues, I finished my degree at The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. The city of Oshkosh resides on the I-41 corridor between Milwaukee and Green Bay, along Lake Winnebago. Named...
by Banjos | Sep 24, 2024 | Daily Links
Good morning one and all to another beautiful day! Man Charged in Apparent Trump Plot Left Note: ‘This Was an Assassination Attempt’ Former Attorney General Bill Barr: ‘Dumbfounded’ That DOJ Would Release Routh Letter US Plans to Bring Attempted Assassination Charge...
by Derpetologist | Sep 23, 2024 | Fiction
It dawned on me that my mom’s cryptic note about leaving my dad for a better man was a subtle way of saying she was leaving him to be a nun. Nuns sometimes refer to themselves as brides of Christ. The mystery was unraveling fast. To gain access to the grounds, I...
by Swiss Servator | Sep 23, 2024 | Daily Links
The Change of Season cold hit, right on time. I have pounded some Tylenol and will get these here links done, regardless! Take that, pesky virus. Paging OMWC, OMWC to the Red Courtesy Phone. You know who else promised to restore order? OK, enough levity – now...
by Animal | Sep 23, 2024 | Fiction
Seven Caliban, 2253 C.E. Caliban, one of the original thirteen founding worlds of the Confederacy, was an ocean world. Most of the blue planet’s surface was water – a massive, global ocean that plunged almost sixty kilometers deep in the lowest...
by sloopyinca | Sep 23, 2024 | Daily Links
The Steelers are 3-0! So are a few other teams, but the Steelers are the biggest surprise. Yesterday was a crazy day with a handful of upsets and generally bad football being played in the early window. I was at the pool during the afternoon games. But I did see some...
by UnCivilServant | Sep 22, 2024 | Fiction, Literature
I hid in my room at the Playful Fox as much as possible. Book in hand, sword on knee, I waited for word of anything, whether that word was good or ill. Thankfully, the word I got was from the Academy first. It came in the form of a courier-borne letter sealed in...
by Not Adahn | Sep 22, 2024 | IFLA
I apologize for not having a column ready for last week, for reasons of my own brain-malfunction I thought that the one I wrote for the 8th was going to be for the 15th. You’d think that writing the date at the top of them would be a clue, but… Anyway,...
by Old Man With Candy | Sep 22, 2024 | Daily Links
I somehow ended up on the hiring committee for my replacement. OK, I can have fun with this. Unfortunately… I had to take an online training course on “Implicit Bias.” I will state my explicit bias: I will only recommend the hiring of someone who...
by Spudalicious | Sep 21, 2024 | Daily Links
The days are warm, the nights are cool, and the smoke is gone. Yep, it’s September, the finest month of the year. Football is in full swing, garden season is winding down, and the weather is outstanding. I’m heading to the cabin in a bit to start shutting...
