Cheap Like the Budgy

Since a certain person who will remain nameless recently took a significant bite out of financial crime, I find myself facing wholly different circumstances on that front to go with my different circumstances on every other front. While part of…

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Good News, Sad News

Many thanks to Madeleine Sumption for carving the pumpkin that Matthew “Fish” McFeeley photographed to create this year’s October theme-change here at StoreyTelling. For four years now, the annual October theme picture has been of pumpkins carved at the prior…

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Duck and Cover #1292

Read Duck and Cover at the Blue Pyramid. Please note that after a functionally three-month hiatus, Duck and Cover will be back as a regular feature for the foreseeable future.

When I Fall

“Hang on to your wallet hang on to your rings I can’t look below me something will throw me I curse at the windstorms that October brings … I wish I could fly from this building from this wall and…

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Pre-Debate Morning

There is a special kind of anticipation that comes with waking up knowing that something exciting or fun or worthwhile is going to happen that day. The feeling that things are not for naught, that one does not regret feeling…

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One-Way Train

When I got on the train bound for New York City yesterday, I didn’t think I was boarding a time machine. I thought I was embarking on a conventional landbound vehicle for a city long hated, long tolerated, long rearing…

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In debate, we talk a decent amount about the distinction between positive and negative rights. Most of you will be familiar, but the basic idea is the split between something that the state actively provides and something the state prevents…

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