Crazy acrobatic gymnasts
This will either charm or horrify you. Maybe both:
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The “people don’t care” election
Donald Trump gave an interview yesterday: In an exclusive sit down with ABC News’ David Muir, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that people don’t care about whether he should release his taxes, while Gov. Mike Pence argued that the … Continue reading →
Thoughts on comments; comments on thoughts
The comments section here offers food for thought, and lots of it. So here’s a post based on a few comments and my reaction to them. (1) “The Other Chuck” wrote of all the GOP presidential candidates in 2016: “It’s … Continue reading →
Happy Labor Day
Labor Day is a three-day-weekend, but today is the actual Labor Day. What are you going to do? I’ve got a $25 credit at a store that expires after today, and it’s burning a hole in my pocket. So I’m … Continue reading →
Infighting on the right
Oh, why rehash the bitter disputes that led us to where we are right now in September of 2016? Sometimes I think it’s impossible—or at least highly unlikely—for people to learn from their errors, or even pay attention to them. … Continue reading →
Philae: like finding a needle in a haystack
Every now and then I lose something and can’t find it, or it takes me a long time to find it. My favorite earring fell off in my car, and seemed to completely disappear. Several years later I found it … Continue reading →
Happy Labor Day weekend
Are you planning to have fun this weekend? I am. Of course, my idea of fun is pretty sedate: going out with friends for a meal, going to a dance performance, going out for a walk and enjoying the fine … Continue reading →
Georgetown University tries to expiate its guilt over slavery
Georgetown is a Jesuit school trying to atone for an episode in its past: In an effort to acknowledge its ties to slavery, Georgetown University will offer the descendants of nearly 300 slaves preferential treatment in its admissions process. In … Continue reading →
Convincing reluctant Trump supporters to vote for him
For a long time I’ve conceptualized Trump voters as falling into two camps: the enthusiastic and the reluctant. No doubt there are some who fall in between, too, but I think that mainly there are those two categories. The first … Continue reading →
Tolstoy post du jour: the voice
More Tolstoy! Just can’t get enough of that Tolstoy!! Seriously, though, I came across something extraordinary yesterday. It’s a recording of Tolstoy himself reading an English translation of a book of quotations from other writers (The Thoughts of Wise Men, … Continue reading →
Hillary Clinton, fast and loose with security
It certainly seems that way: Earlier today, the FBI released its investigative notes on the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal, including its notes on their interview of Hillary in June. It makes for an interesting read, and a couple of eye-popping … Continue reading →
“We’ve always been at war with Eastasia”
The Soviets were known for their revisionary history, a situation Orwell fictionalized in Nineteen Eighty-Four and immortalized in the quote with which I’ve titled this post. But it goes on in post-Soviet Russia today, as this ruling indicates: Russia’s Supreme … Continue reading →