The ADK Homeroom

Wallace Stevens would appreciate this episode! Daylight savings time, Russian defenestration, Elon Musk vs. Ron Wyden, wild hogs attacking Shakira, and Keats' Ode accused of sexual harassment. No better way to start your Monday!

Who made bad decisions this week? Lots of people. Let's learn from them. Tony Fauci, Henry Ruggs III, Terry "Dream Journal" McAuliffe, and Dr. Youn on TikTok talking about penile length related to nose size. And if you know the Robert Herrick poem "The Vine," you know how well it fits in!

Today I take a lighter look at some absurd items in the news. Terry McAuliffe's bad day, Olivia Rodrigo's visit to the White House, Robert Durst, and the USS Connecticut running into a mountain.

Let's look at two recent poems from Plough: Andrew Frisardi's "An Old Cassette-Letter" and Jean Kreiling's "After Helping My Father Rake the Leaves."

The VA election, the Nigerian high-rise collapse, Pakistan banning hugs on TV, American Airlines, COP26 and US CO2 emissions. Lots to cover today!

The same arguments against libertarianism come up again and again. All Saints' Day is a good day to shoot them down one at a time.

What makes the cut this week? Squid Game vs. LeBron James, PETA, DaBaby, good ol' Riley Finn, and not so good ol' Andrew Cuomo. Plus the moms of Slate's Care and Feeding and more!

Not everyone who supports Anthony Fauci is a zombie, but many of his supporters believe blindly in anything that he or the public health security apparatus says. These are the Fauci zombies, and this is your field guide to identifying and understanding them.

Rounding up all the news from the past week. In particular, I talk about the 'nightmare scenario' in physics and the new focus on interpretations of quantum mechanics that the scenario has spurred.

It's Poetry Tuesday! Time to go through half a dozen of my favorite lilies from issue 4 of Bad Lilies. Poems from Amit Majmudar, Penelope Shuttle, L Kiew, and Naush Sabah.