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Catch-45

October 9, 2019

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Team Trump has issued their official response to the impeachment inquiry, as summed up here: Jon Favreau...

Constitutional Crisis on Infinite Crises

October 8, 2019

So, it's happened: ABC News @ABCBREAKING: White House sends letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying Trump administration "cannot be expected to participate in"...

17 is the Euphoniest Number

October 7, 2019

So, I've talked about this before in this very newsletter, but I think one of the mistakes people can make in dealing with Trump is assuming there must be...

Subscription Drive Update

October 7, 2019

Hey, all! Today was the day that the introductory sale was set to end and the subscription price (for new subscribers) would go up to $5 a month or $50 a...

Self-Improvement in the Neighborhood

October 6, 2019

You know, I didn't set out to be the woman on Twitter who affectionately calls her audience babies. It wasn't planned. It just sort of happened. It mostly...

The Lesson of the Wolf

October 5, 2019

It never gets any less surreal for me, watching the right-wing fever swamps denounce the FBI and the CIA as hotbeds of radical, liberal, socialist...

Toybox vs. Playground

October 4, 2019

So, I've been thinking a lot about tabletop game design lately, and in particular about the types of roleplaying games that do grab me as a player and...

What's all this, then?

October 3, 2019

You know, I went into this newsletter experiment with no baseline for what success would look like. I just knew that I wasn't spending enough time on Twitter...

Through The Crooking Glass

October 2, 2019

So, Trump today said that he agrees with whistleblower protections but only for real whistleblowers, not people who make up bad things about him. That...

Now That's What I Call Mootin' Around

October 2, 2019

It's no surprise to anyone who follows me long on Twitter that I love etymology. That's the study of words and their origins, by the way. If you get it mixed...

Another of Trump's Trademark "Complete Lies"

October 1, 2019

Daniel Dale on Twitter, with a fact check of a typically trumped-up tale from Hair Furor: Daniel Dale @ddale8Trump told US diplomats at the UN that CNN built...

What's The Buzz?

September 30, 2019

Given how late I wrote it on a Sunday night, my newsletter entry about pricing your work as an entrepreneur has generated a surprising amount of interest and...

Don't Sell Yourself Short

September 30, 2019

Let's talk a little bit about money and self-employment or selling your own work for yourself. When I left my last day job to go into business for myself --...

The Puck Apologizes, 2019

September 28, 2019

If you mortals are offended,think but this, and all is mended:there was neither foul nor harm,thus no cause to give alarm.And this outraged twitter mob,a...

A Series of Unrelated Events

September 27, 2019

A question I keep seeing is: how are Republicans still defending Trump in the wake of the transcript, much less everything else that has come out? Now, I...

The Innocence of Donald Trump

September 26, 2019

So, I'm reading the whistleblower report this morning. A lot of national security experts and legal experts are poring over this thing and on those issues, I...

Dial H For HONK

September 24, 2019

So, I got myself Untitled Goose Game for the Switch on Sunday as a little treat after the successful bookstore launch. I've been looking forward to it since...

When Turns The Wheel

September 24, 2019

One of the persistent obstacles in getting to impeachment -- whether we're talking about the legal proceedings, the outcome, or just the word itself in the...

Of Little Shops, And Horror

September 23, 2019

In an email conversation with my father about the Flying Camel and our increasing visibility and growing buzz, he made a very interesting point about...

Is This [Stephen King's] It [Chapter Two]? Is This All There Is?

September 23, 2019

So, my capsule review of It Chapter 2 is: the parts that were supposed to be scary were funny, the parts that were supposed to be dramatic were boring, but...