Today was Inauguration Day. Barack Obama, whose second term as President began yesterday, was administered a ceremonial oath of office this afternoon for a public inauguration ceremony. Obama’s inaugural speech was strongly progressive in its outlook, but some of the speech’s invocations of god irked me. I tweeted my irksomeness, and Stuart Ian Burns repliedContinue reading “On the Revolutionary Time Lord”
Daily Archives: January 21, 2013
On Downton Abbey’s Boring Hour
Last night’s episode was a bit dull, wasn’t it? Or maybe it was that I wasn’t that engaged by the storylines. Ethel. Can she go away, please? It’s not Ethel and her situation that irks me. It’s Isobel and her reaction to Ethel’s situation that irks me. I know that Isobel feels like she needsContinue reading “On Downton Abbey’s Boring Hour”