Some Questions to Which I Don’t Have Adequate Answers and Probably Never Will
Is there an instinctive shock response that would incapacitate any medieval monk who went on YouTube?
by Ben Orlebeke | Jul 6, 2022 | 2 comments
Is there an instinctive shock response that would incapacitate any medieval monk who went on YouTube?
by Ben Orlebeke | Jun 6, 2022 | 2 comments
When Dobbs comes down, prosecutions will rise. Many women will go to jail. More will die.
by Ben Orlebeke | May 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Apparently I’m more tired than I thought, though, because I just don’t have it in me right now to track all that down.
by Ben Orlebeke | Mar 6, 2022 | 0 comments
A family fleeing bombs or starvation or authoritarianism is a family in need, whether from Odesa or Aleppo.
by Ben Orlebeke | Jan 6, 2022 | 4 comments
If I sound deeply alarmed, that’s because all the available evidence points towards that being the appropriate state of mind.
by Ben Orlebeke | Dec 6, 2021 | 1 comment
It doesn’t make much sense, as far as personal dreams or plans for my future go.
by Ben Orlebeke | Nov 6, 2021 | 0 comments
You are the longest
bear and/or pup in the world
Or at least this block
by Ben Orlebeke | Oct 6, 2021 | 2 comments
It’s hard for me not to wonder what the point is of trying to make a difference.
by Ben Orlebeke | Sep 6, 2021 | 0 comments
There are a whole lot of people doing a much worse job than you would.
by Ben Orlebeke | Aug 6, 2021 | 5 comments
It wasn’t a surprising move—but my god, was it depressing.
by Ben Orlebeke | Jun 6, 2021 | 1 comment
Middle-earth is like my second home, and I know its every corner.
by Ben Orlebeke | May 6, 2021 | 1 comment
It seems unlikely that the truth will reach the vast majority of the millions who heard the lie.
by Ben Orlebeke | Mar 6, 2021 | 2 comments
This game is not good. I played it a lot.
by Ben Orlebeke | Jan 6, 2021 | 4 comments
But throw it all in a skillet for twenty minutes and you end up with magic.
by Ben Orlebeke | Dec 6, 2020 | 1 comment
But at least I know if an acceptance mailed to an offeror is binding even if the offeror has already sent a revocation that the offeree hasn’t yet received (it is)!
by Ben Orlebeke | Nov 6, 2020 | 5 comments
We live in a country where nearly 70 million people made that choice, and we need to talk about it.
by Ben Orlebeke | Oct 6, 2020 | 2 comments
But this is not an obituary or a hagiography or a remembrance.
by Ben Orlebeke | Sep 6, 2020 | 2 comments
The ability to imagine outside our four walls is how we stay sane.
by Ben Orlebeke | Aug 6, 2020 | 7 comments
Six migrant children died in US government custody during an eight-month span of 2018 and 2019. No child had died in US custody for a decade.