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Liberal Japonicus 
by liberal japonicus I guess it is time for the site design here to diverge from the roughly imitated classic look at the archive. I’m still working on the archive, right now going thru to get the correct authors for the posts and to try and write a history of the blog, (other folks interested … Read more
by liberal japonicus In response to this, I post this is from Gemini, go to the bottom for an ironic mea culpa The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. These are jobs that typically require a bachelor’s degree or higher in a specific … Read more
by liberal japonicus From the Grauniad here. The 39-year-old Jamaican had not watched athletics at all since retiring in 2017 until seeing Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Oblique Seville win gold. And, as he also admitted, he now spends his time streaming movies and building Lego – and even gets out of breath when he walks up … Read more
by liberal japonicus (image information here) Hartmut mentioned Horst Wessel in connection with Charlie Kirk. First a little background on Horst Wessel and a Forward article about why people are connecting the two. This academic paper is worth a read, though I am getting sensitive to the criticism that being too academic is problematic. During … Read more
by liberal japonicus While the blog has a setting that says “Before a comment appears ☑️Comment author must have a previously approved comment”. Unfortunately, it seems that you have to make an account and be logged in. Otherwise, your comment will go into moderation. The urge is to think that this just a little backwater … Read more
by liberal japonicus While what happens in the future is still unknown, to me, nothing gets at ‘the spirit of the age’ better than a 71 year old gay British politician being the first person to lose their job over Epstein. To really represent that spirit, he’d have to be the only one. Bets down, … Read more
by liberal japonicus Work on the archive site continues, I’m currently deleting the doubled comments and figuring how to make list of front-pagers that is connected to their posts. Still don’t know exactly how commenters are approved. Some people are able to comment it seems, but others (wj) keeps getting held up for approval. In … Read more
by liberal japonicus I would like to research this post more, but we are still trying to get a handle on the comments and what constitutes ‘approval’ in WordPress, so I’ll put this up a little rougher than I prefer. Don’t get used to it! During ObWi’s brief Babylonian exile, just before the death of … Read more
by liberal japonicus I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which took place at Utah Valley University, a public university. I had never heard of the university, but wikipedia tells me that it is the largest university by enrollment in Utah. The person who has been arrested for … Read more
by liberal japonicus Hi and welcome (or welcome back) to the Obsidian Wings blog. If you didn’t know, Typepad will shut down 30 Sept, 2025, so what we have done is made an archive site (at https://archive.obsidianwings.blog/) which has the previous posts and comments. I’ll be working on it over the next while to try … Read more