Daily Archives: August 16, 2025

 

“Woman Spreading”

 

In the old days, young women went to finishing school, where they learned modesty and other old-fashioned virtues.

Today, we have girls like Lauren on Big Brother (below), who apparently likes to advertise her availability to a national TV audience:

 

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I’ve been watching season two of Wednesday. The show’s either lost some of its charm, or it’s in a sophomore slump. 

The script relies too much on Jenna Ortega as the title character. She’s great, but a series needs more than that. The problem, as usual, is a weak script. The mystery is pedestrian and the subplots are nothing special. Wednesday has gone from quirky delight about a weird girl invading a Hogwarts-like school to “Nancy Drew Mystery of the Week.”

Or maybe I just have no business watching a show aimed at teen girls.

 

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I’ve been arguing with an A.I. character. I don’t recommend it.

Debating with humans can be exasperating, but real people are nowhere near as obstinate as A.I. characters.

 

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I could mention something about the week in current events, but if we are all living in a simulation, the news doesn’t matter, anyway.

 

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