October 2025 – Founding Questions
5 posts published by Severian during October 2025| Founding Questions
5 posts published by Severian during October 2025| Founding Questions
As always, thank you to everyone who sent in questions; you make my life so much easier. Chairman Mao says, your diligent striving to increase quality outputs will be rewarded with… sunflowers? Some kind of cabbage? Whatever, you’ll eat it and like it, Citizen! Pickle Rick asks: Bolton just got hit with 18 charges. Serious? … Continue reading "Friday Mailbag"| Founding Questions
Note #1: Tomorrow’s Friday, so please send mailbag questions! Post below or email to rcseverian AT protonmail dot com. We thank you for your continued diligence in striving to increase quality outputs. Note #2: This is even more scattered than usual. It’s the kind of shit I think about sometimes when I can’t sleep — … Continue reading "Set Points"| Founding Questions
I know, we’re supposed to have Nerd Fights on Wednesday, but this was too good to pass up. It’s October, homies — my favorite month of the year. Indulge me, won’t you? That’s the title of this piece from Karen: The Website, once again by Andi Zeisler — I guess because she’s rocking that “Diabetic … Continue reading "“Horror has always been about us”"| Founding Questions
Zorost sent this in, at the tail end of a thrown gauntlet: Not sure what you can do with this content-wise, but I thought you’d enjoy it even more than I did, which is saying a lot. I love a challenge like that. But first, some inside baseball!! No, really, some of y’all seem to … Continue reading "How Did The World Get So Ugly?"| Founding Questions
First, some airy-fairy stuff, because this is the kind of shit I think about, and here’s where I vent my thoughts. But I’ll throw in some pop culture kayfabe: Ignore, if you please, the hilarious incongruity of a homicide cop who’d spent years undercover as an outlaw biker, asking a skinhead meth cook if he’s … Continue reading "Overdetermination (Salon Tense Field Guide)"| Founding Questions
Yeah, this is one of those. Be advised. I need to get one of those “parental advisory” stickers. “Explicit” meaning, in this case, “gassy, stream-of-consciousness bullshit.” Even more so than usual, that is. Anyway, the other day gadflight101 posted a video by a woman named Hilary Layne, who has a blog — a very recent … Continue reading "Antiheroes"| Founding Questions
Thanks to everyone who sent in questions. I hope to be more diligent in my own striving to increase quality outputs. Boris Karlovskii says, Labor for 48 hours straight in the uranium mines, comrade, and this bowl of soup will be yours! Bennythecoolcat asks: There should be a betting pool on which Western country is … Continue reading "Friday Mailbag"| Founding Questions
Or, anyway, an initial stab at it. Much like the glossary and the recommended reading list, both of which seemed like good ideas at the time, but need far more maintenance than I have given them… well, you see where this is going. Nonetheless, I’m going to take a stab at it. But first: Why? … Continue reading "A Field Guide to Salon Tense (preliminary remarks)"| Founding Questions
Yesterday Cale brought us a link detailing the career of Upgrayedd the Principal (yes, with two Ds, for a “double dose” of fraudulent educational attainment). It’s pretty funny on its own; if you are, as I am, amused by suicidal human folly, it’s hilarious. It also contains this fascinating chart: That was the 1970s, so … Continue reading "WNF: IQ, Knowledge, College Major"| Founding Questions
I’m going to beg your indulgence, comrades. This is by far my favorite month of the year, always has been. Even growing up where I did, in which “fall,” much like “winter…| Founding Questions
I’ve got some free time today (Sunday), so let’s see what the AWFLs are up to, as they are the primary drivers of this idiocy. Just looking at the headlines — I fisk as I read, as…| Founding Questions
5 posts published by Severian during September 2025| Founding Questions
[note: Tomorrow is Friday, so please send mailbag questions! Email to rcseverian AT protonmail dot com or post in the comments below. Thank you for your attention to this matter] Obligatory music b…| Founding Questions
Haven’t done one of these in a while. India Today: Zelenskyy hails US ‘historic decision’ on security guarantees for Ukraine Oh good, TACOs! Remember, that’s “Trump Always C…| Founding Questions
5 posts published by Severian during August 2025| Founding Questions
Thanks as always to everyone who sent in questions. Please, take a medal from the barrel. Nate Winchester brings us a graphic of note: There it is. It’s important to note that this is “…| Founding Questions
Because it’s Friday, I ain’t got no job, and I ain’t got shit else to do. As always, thanks to everyone who took time to submit questions. You must have at least this many medals …| Founding Questions
