The Cabinet
How hops it, ninnyhammers? Horace L. Popinjay here to cut through the turgid summer’s air with a cool breeze of lucid musings. I have recently been on my annual vacation, […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Disgrace the Nation
In the spirit of Hurricane Henri and the fall of Kabul, in this column we will blow hard and piss all over everything, and move ahead with no idea what […]
Tens of Leaves Down: Henri aftermath report
As New England counts the cost of Tropical Storm Henri, Governor Dan McKee, took to the podium to deliver the verdict from the Hill: “Tropical Storm Henri was an unprecedented […]
Our Least Favorite Delta: Will Gina save the world?
Smithfield local and former general treasurer of Rhode Island, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, has promised to do everything in her powers to reopen international travel. “We’re working on it,” […]
Are You Not Entertained?: The river wasn’t the only thing on fire when Who He and Elorza squared off
Oooh, you bitch! The British would call it, with a dismissive sneer and a smile, “handbags at 10 paces.” That about sums up the much-inflated confrontation between Providence Mayor Jorge […]
The Cabinet
Salutations, louts and bully-boys! H.L. Popinjay here with another edition of The Cabinet, the column which, much like the chocolate cabinets of my wayward Rhode Island youth, is bound to […]
The RI history we don’t talk about: Hard Scrabble and Snowtown
Recently, conservatives have been campaigning to keep critical race theory (a theoretical framework that states that race is a social construct designed to oppress people of color) from being taught […]
The Cabinet
Salutations doddypolls and jobbernowls! As regular readers of this column are aware, I am writing this dispatch from my underwater lair in the year 2121 — an algae encrusted pyramidical […]
Light Up the Night: How do we sleep when our bridge is burning?
Relax and Enjoy It With COVID restrictions slowly but surely being eased back to a bearable level, and The Donald off Twitter and Facebook and just beginning what appears to […]
The Fourth Arena: Carry-on cartography
Things are changing in Kent County as West Warwick demands nominative equity from its larger neighbor to the east. “Why should we be the diminutive, the one separate?” asked Ivan […]