In the face of absurdity . . .
Tuesday, September 9, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . and the weatherfeather indicates a warming week settling into TulsyTown with moderate Southerlies and sunny skies. Today in the mid 80's. 90's return Thursday.
Robert Reich asks and answers: Should democrats shut down the government?
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born on this day in 1828 on his family's estate in the province of Tula, near Moscow.
It's Paul Goodman's birthday. The author of Growing Up Absurd was born in 1911 Greenwich Village in New York City.
“It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)” – Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd, Vintage, 1960.
And it's the birthday of Otis Redding. The soul singer whose life was way too short was born in 1941, Dawson, Georgia.