Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

It’s the 22nd year of the 21st Century, so can we just get rid of this arcane ritual once and for all?!

Raise a glass to freedom! Look into your eyes and the sky’s the limit. Those are some of the lyrics from two of my favorite songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” musical, The Story of Tonight and Helpless. (PS: I previously … Continue reading →

I posted a work of art by this great Ukrainian artist one week ago; here is another:

“Two letters by scholars, from Ukraine and Russia“. Hat tip: Brian Leiter.

Update (3/11): I woke up to some good news this morning: the Major League Baseball dispute referred to below has now been resolved. (I will blog more about MLB in the next day or two.) How many more regular-season games … Continue reading →

Why aren’t we giving Ukraine the fighter jets she needs to defend herself? If this report is true (see excerpt below), all I can say is that Pentagon officials are abandoning Ukraine, our supposed ally, the same way they botched … Continue reading →

… plus c’est la même chose. (“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”) Eighty-five years ago today (9 March 1937), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered one of his famous “fireside chats” via radio–the one in which FDR … Continue reading →

Check out this 2006 blog post by Paul Burgess, which explains the rules of a chess variant called singularity chess (hat tip: @pickover). Reverend Burgess, an ordained Presbyterian minister in rural Iowa, had originally discovered this variant when he was … Continue reading →

Remember when Twitter would slap warning labels on Donald Trump’s tweets? (If not, does this refresh your memory?) Not only has Twitter failed to ban war criminals like Putin from its platform; it is also allowing the Kremlin’s account to … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
That is the name of this simple and elegant online tool (pictured below) created by Clive Thompson, a tech journalist, author, and developer of another similar web tool called “just the punctuation” that I blogged…