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Latest — 09 Nov 2026

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The Daily Eudemon: Essays for the restless mind in a crumbling age. TDE's Scrolling Blog: A throwback to the blog's early days in 2002. Members only (membership is free, btw). TODAY (11/9): TEXAS REJECTED A ONE-PARTY STATE. IF ONLY CALIFORNIA HAD A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HADES TO DO THE SAME

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The Week in Review

It was a glorious two years, but now I can't call the toddlers in my neighborhood "fag retards" anymore.

Over 10,000 Hippie Communes Established in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s . . . Gone

Mostly gone, anyway. Why'd they disappear? Life was too freakin' hard. (Blog Post)

Bring on the Raw, Unverbalized

No Week in Review This Week

The usual litany: a large family and its attendant time commitments, illness, lameness. (Blog Post)

Flannery O'Connor Kept It Real

And she didn't have much with truck with authors who didn't (Blog Post)

AI Can Build Great Things, but They're Inherently Fake and Crappy

Attraction to older women, square circles, halls of mirrors, Sam Kriss (Essay)

The Week in Review

Ilhan, did you marry your brother? "Ehhhhhh." How we know Moroccan women are ugly even though we've never seen pictures because they're all covered-up and shit. Throttling the Internet. Norm MacDonald is the Man/Netflix. Larry David and the DSA.

A Marijuana-Beer Column from 2004

I still stand by it, which is kinda surprising (Blog Post)

The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor