Discuss among yourselves. When you rent a car in Italy and want an automatic, the choices are very limited. For the duration of this trip so far I’ve been a passenger in a Fiat, and right from the start the … Continue reading →
My finger is not on the pulse of movies, and so I’d never heard of Asia Argento before the Weinstein scandal in which she was one of his earliest and most vocal accusers, a regular star of the #MeToo movement. … Continue reading →
McCarthy writes: The Justice Department has a history of treating serious campaign-finance transgressions as administrative violations, not felonies. A prominent example: The 2008 Obama campaign accepted nearly $2 million in illegal campaign contributions, but was permitted to settle the matter … Continue reading →
I was in Florence yesterday. I’m only about a half hour south of there, so it was a no-brainer to go, although I knew it would be crowded and very hot. It was crowded and very very hot. Walking on … Continue reading →
The first sentence of this article is telling, isn’t it?: President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort on Tuesday was found guilty of eight of the 18 charges brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller. It’s really quite simple: … Continue reading →
Pot’s illegality hasn’t stopped it from being used with great frequency in recent years by a great deal of the American public. So why not legalize it? Well, one reason might be that it would result in even higher use: … Continue reading →
[NOTE: It might help to have read this previous post of mine, about free-climbing El Capitan, before reading the present post.] This article is about Dean Potter, a free-climbing star who died in a base-jumping accident in 2015. It was … Continue reading →
The word “dog” is not (and as far as I know, never has been) a racially-tinged epithet, although the WaPo would have you think it is: The president of the United States had just lobbed another racially charged insult — … Continue reading →
I noticed that yesterday, rather suddenly, the comments began to have double time stamps. This had been a problem in the early days of the new blog (long before the redirect), and I fixed it months ago, but it wasn’t … Continue reading →
Any prognosticators out there?
Continue reading →Recent sightings, and a culinary observation: Ever since I tasted my first piece of bread here, I wondered: why? Why no salt? Bread without salt doesn’t taste very good at all. Tuscany is really into food, and good food, so … Continue reading →
Apparently not.
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