TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I'll post one more bird photo, because I don't want to end the blogging day with a photo of J.D. Vance at the top of the blog column...

Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Shutterstoc k.  Via The Guardian . I will forever be in awe of how some birds can construct these nests...

Excerpts from the London Review of Books : Almost no politician​ writes his own books, and few people actually read them. J.D. Vance is diff...

I was surprised today when I checked TYWKIWDBI for previous posts about seed art and couldn't find any.  Time to correct that.  Embedded...

A ceremonial mask from the Benue River Valley region of Nigeria, from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The black and r...

I was going to introduce this music video by saying "I was today years old when I learned..." but I've recently realized that ...

Those of us in the hobby (and in some other pastimes involving collectables) often joke that "there is a very fine line between a hobby...

Officers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month , it was rep...

“It’s a troublesome world.  All the people who are in it Are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole h...

I screencapped the above claim months ago, intending to research the matter, but have not found time to do so, and have now decided it's...

Reposted from 2017 because I've been distracted from blogging for the past couple weeks. Cartoon from the archives of The New Yorke...

As an old English major, I've enjoyed accumulating a vocabulary of words ending in "vore."  Most people know carnivore, herbiv...

When Trump and Netanyahu started this war, much of the attention in the business world was focused on the price of crude oil (Brent, WTI) an...

Most of the conventional media I monitor echo Trump's declarations.  The updates I respect the most come from Al Jazeera.  Here is this ...