Author: Michael Frizzell
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Lessons from the Stoics for Tottenham supporters
The best revenge is to not be like your enemy [Arsenal] Marcus Aurelius After a long summer full of watching the Euros, Copa America, the Olympics, and even MLS, my first football love is back in action. The Premier League kicks off this weekend and on Monday Tottenham Hotspur face off against newly promoted Leicester…
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A simple to-do list in Logseq
Logseq is a great piece of software that so many people seem to sleep on because it isn’t Obsidian or Notion or some other closed-source application. But for someone who wants to use open source and maybe isn’t interested in the learning curve of Emacs or Vim, you really can’t go wrong. In my case,…
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‘The River’ and the limits of working class solidarity
“The River”, a 1984 film directed by Mark Rydell and starring Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson, is one of the more underrated political films of the 1980s. The story centers on Tom and Mae Garvey, Tennessee farmers who are barely holding onto their land during an economic crisis. As we begin, their farm is nearly…
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We are living in the post-apocalypse
On the night of the 12th of January 2007, I was violently awakened by the apocalypse. You might not remember it because, as far you can tell, the world did not end in 2007. But for me it did. For my family it did. And for hundreds of thousands of others in the Ozarks, it…
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The traffic congestion con
The city of Springfield is going to toss $2M towards widening I-44 between 65 and Kansas Expressway. While 2 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the proposed FY22 budget, we should probably expect the city and county will end up spending a lot more once the project is approved and construction begins in…