Archive - Quoth the Maven

All men want to be heroes

(At least every once in a while)

Mar 6 •

February 2025

Orwell vs. Huxley

Two dystopian worlds: "Brave New World" is a lullaby, "1984" is a scream

Feb 27 •

Amazing facts, historical oddities and fantastical niceties that will boggle your mind

Feb 21 •

"Independent" news or government propaganda?

The Internews Network is an "independent" NGO news organization funded by USAID. Sound suspicious?

Feb 13 •

Old photos ... today and in the future

It'll be funny to look back at "old" pictures 30 years from now

Feb 3 •

January 2025

The Pardoner's Tale

Both Trump and Biden exercised presidential pardons in the worst possible way.

Jan 23 •

Escape from L.A.

The failure of Los Angeles is, at heart, a human one.

Jan 11 •

"Je suis Charlie!"

It has been 10 years -- Jan. 7, 2015 -- since the Islamic attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Not much has changed since.

Jan 7 •

An act against injustice, or symbolic of America's moral breakdown?

Funny thing about Luigi Mangione.

Jan 1 •

December 2024

November 2024

The election and the decline of Mainstream Media

Picture the Grim Reaper standing beside a grave, shovel at the ready, waiting for the prayers to finish so he can settle the corpse of Mainstream…

Nov 25, 2024 •

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