[UPDATE: Scroll down for photo.] I’ve stayed away from the Samantha Bee brouhaha so far because it just plain wearies me. I come from a time when the c-word was simply not acceptable in public life, and that was that. … Continue reading →
They seem to take yearly polls on the question, and the last few years the numbers wanting to leave San Francisco have gone up, up, up: A poll released Sunday by a local advocacy group showed that 46 percent of … Continue reading →
…but it’s a narrow ruling: The verdict criticized the [Colorado’s] treatment of [baker] Jack Phillips’ religious objections to gay marriage, ruling that a civil rights commission was biased against him. As a result, the decision did not resolve whether other … Continue reading →
I can’t eat chocolate because it gives me migraines—alas—but I’ve always had a passion for nougat, particularly the kind that’s usually made in Italy or France. This brand is relatively easy to find, and it’s pretty darn tasty. But I … Continue reading →
One of the things that struck me about this article excoriating Alan Dershowitz for his recent defense (not support, but defense) of Trump is that author Elie Mystal doesn’t actually engage with any arguments, nor does he cite anything Dershowitz … Continue reading →
Educators and people who set education policy are constantly tweaking college admissions standards in order to reach the holy grail of enough diversity, or the right kind of diversity. Here’s an article appearing in The Atlantic which offers a new … Continue reading →
Mollie Hemingway takes Gowdy on. As does Andrew C. McCarthy. So, what’s up with Gowdy lately? And does this former prosecutor not know (or care) about the difference between a criminal investigation and a counter-intelligence investigation? Gowdy’s on the way … Continue reading →
Once again, President Trump does what I consider to be the right thing. If I had pardon power, I would have pardoned d’Souza, whose conviction (for something ordinarily not prosecuted at all) seemed a clear case of vindictive political pursuit … Continue reading →
There’s been some discussion in this recent thread about pro-Trump and anti-Trump commenters here, and whether one group or the other has left in significant numbers. Actually, the majority of commenters who left this blog during the 2016 campaign and … Continue reading →
About a year or two ago there was a caching problem here with the comments. Lately there’s been another cache problem connected with comments. This time the autofill for comments wasn’t working—a fact which some of you have noticed and … Continue reading →
I had previously ignored this story, but it came up again in a comment by “AesopFan” and I thought I’d delve into it. Here’s the tale as told by John Brennan, who later become director of the CIA under Obama: … Continue reading →
I think they are. The biggest one in my neck of the woods opened around 1980. I remember how exciting it was to have a spiffy new mall within just a few minutes of my house. Now that mall is … Continue reading →