📷📚 Eldest got super excited for the opportunity to draw Gustavo the Ghost at school cause it’s one of her favorite books from home.
📷📚 Eldest got super excited for the opportunity to draw Gustavo the Ghost at school cause it’s one of her favorite books from home.
The minivan is back, and millennial dads are leading the charge:
What’s shifting now is that a generation of Millennial dads seems to be redefining what winning actually looks like. Choosing the vehicle that genuinely fits your life that fits your kids, your budget, your values — is starting to read less like surrender and more like confidence.
When I talk to other men about the minivan my one car family uses I usually state something to the effect of most car marketing towards men is all about sex appeal and 14 years into my marriage the sexiest thing I can be is safe, reliable, and extremely useful in specific ways.
“Nicole1 has repeatedly affirmed C.T.’s journalism and C.T.’s editorial independence even though she’s violating it,” Ms. Kristian said. “In the meantime, Tom2 has been openly hostile.”
Near the conclusion of my time at Wheaton College I recall an essay published entitled ‘Whither Wheaton’ raising some middle-term questions about the institutions identity and direction. Evangelicalism doesn’t have an explicit magisterium or doctrinal confession that defines its boundaries. Often, it’s boundaries have been defined by the network of organizations and ancillary institutions (education, media, social work) that serve as gravity wells for cooperative work among evangelical aligned actors (be they churches, political figures, philanthropists, or media influences). ‘Whither …." has become a genre of literature that seems to target a new institution or organization in that constellation every 2 or 3 years. This has only accelerated since Trump’s election in 2016 (with White evangelical voters being the cornerstone of his coalition). It’s predominately institutional stances towards culture war issues that power the genre. The central question is typically institutional viability (if not fiscally, then whether the institutional identity can actually hold together in practice).
Off the top of my head I recall such entries in the genre involving Bethany Christian Services, World Vision, and Wheaton College (a reliable (an?)protagonist). CT’s turn appears to have arrived.
Dining center I’m at is serving Gochujang Chicken and when asked “is this spicy” the culinary platform attendant shook their head no. Either they are choosing violence or don’t really have a good sense what gochujang is.
Received a delightful little traffic update from Ingham County Emergency Dispatch today.
📷 🍂 Track fall progress with me through the maple in my front yard. 2026.10.12.
I get that there is a lot of enthusiasm out there for Warhammer 40K (at least in my feeds) when it comes to games and animation, but Piranah Games is doing phenomenal work with Battletech and their Mechwarrior 5 tranches. Never been a better time to jump in on the IP’s lore. Go watch some Sven van der Plank videos and hop on in!
Sustainability discourse asks how to keep the crop alive. It rarely asks how to keep the grower whole. When certification schemes negotiate a differential of a few cents, what is being priced is a human life, and the negotiation assumes the arrangement itself is acceptable and only the number is in dispute.
What is the fair trade for my children to be cotton pickers? There is no number. I am not asking what the wage should be. I am asking why that is the position on offer at all. Every framework that begins with a price has already conceded the position, and they have been conceding it for three hundred years.
To the extent that I’m starting to see a bit a fuss on my feeds about what may or may not be happening with the Plague in Russia its worth reading folks who will remind you to take a deep breath before jumping to conclusions.
Propublica is documenting in detail the detention of U.S. citizens by (typically masked) Federal law enforcement officers under the guise of immigration policy administration.