What a year it has been, huh? Well, lots of blogs are pumping out their best posts of the year, and, well, we didn’t pump out that many posts, so here’s just a general list of what we published this year. Wrote a post about the TikTok ban. Reminder: It’s still theoretically banned. lol. Celebrated the new Turnstile album. You should listen to it — it’s super good. We are now just so surrounded by ads. So of course we need more ads. I got mad. A post about how judges are going to be on the...
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A tale of two search engines
Just a quick post here from the webmaster to show how much Google sucks and how Bing may be a little less sucky? Let’s see what happens when you search the name of the blog. Google: And, Bing:
Continue reading...Energy blogging
We’re currently living through two trends that are quickly converging with force. First, the electrification of the energy system: a long-running focus of environmentalists, who know that there is no way to combat climate change without changing things that run on fossil fuels to work off the electric grid. Sure, the electric grid currently is pretty dirty, but it’s long been far cleaner than burning straight fossil fuels, and the electric grid has the capability to get cleaner. So, we have things like cars, stoves, hot water heaters, furnaces, etc., joining the electric grid in massive numbers....
Continue reading...We are so f**cking back
I would like to welcome you to the next chapter in Verities and Vagaries history. We were a web log founded in the twilight years of the web log golden era (circa 2010). We were founded to have fun with the medium, while also staying true to our probably too-earnest sensibilities as probably too-earnest political thinkers and actors. We also wrote a ton about booze. But as we aged, our jobs got more demanding, and the web blogosphere started fading (so did we). The bastards killed Google Reader. As such, the effort just wasn’t at-hand to keep...
Continue reading...Your Weekend Roundup
So, there were a flood of posts this afternoon, many of them rapidly descending down the page without being given the spot of honor at the top that they deserved. There was some great writing that went on and it would be a shame if anyone missed it. It only seems proper and fitting that they be collected here briefly, so you might see what you missed and peruse it at your leisure this weekend. Lady Blaga brought the insight on President Obama’s likely nominee to fill John Paul Stevens’ Associate Justice spot on the Supreme Court,...
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