If you reward a behavior you get more of it. When you stop rewarding it, you get less. That’s not as absolute a law as that of gravity, but it’s the way it usually goes, and the phenomenon of the … Continue reading →
When I was a newlywed my husband and I took a trip to Europe, spending most of our time in England and France. It was the 70s, and Europe (and the world) was a lot less crowded and traveling not … Continue reading →
I wanted to call attention to something I discussed in the comments section yesterday. In all the brouhaha about what Donald Trump said about “targeting” terrorists’ families, it hasn’t been much emphasized that he made a blatant factual error during … Continue reading →
The latest Trump story is based on Trump’s accusations towards the Cruz camp re Iowa. It’s a leaf out of the usual Trump playbook, and I have to confess I felt weary at the prospect of describing it here and … Continue reading →
I thought I’d write a separate post about this today, since the subject was such a bone of contention yesterday. My strongest objection to Trump’s remarks about banning Muslims from entering this country was that he seemed to be including … Continue reading →
I happen to like Thanksgiving. Always have. It’s a holiday for anyone and everyone in this country—except, of course, people who hate turkey. There are quite a few of those curmudgeonly folks, but I’m happy to report I’m not one … Continue reading →
At first I read this article thinking that the escuses offered by Faklan Abdeslam—the mother of Paris suicide bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam, who blew himself up during the Paris attacks, injuring another man—were mordantly, bitterly, absurd. Faklan, by the way, is … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote the following about Pope Francis and politics: …I tend to think that we often seem to get the popes that match our times. Ever notice some sort of harmonic resonance between popes and other public figures of … Continue reading →
Hinderaker asks some questions I’ve been wondering and wondering and wondering about, too—why this surge of refugees in Europe now? And who are they? These are obvious questions, but a great many articles on the subject fail to ask them … Continue reading →
…although this one was less successful, because he rushed towards the shooter before the gun jammed. I had wondered about the identity of the man on the train who was reported to have been shot in the neck, and here’s … Continue reading →
Every now and then while searching for something on the blog I come across an old thread and start reading, including the comments. Thus, this post. Obama’s campaign year was 2008 and then of course his election, while early 2009 … Continue reading →
While thinking about my PJ post on Obama’s comparison of mass murders and gun control in the US to the same phenomena in Europe, it occurred to me that part of what Obama has done during his presidency is to … Continue reading →