Happy Mother’s Day!
[NOTE: This is a repeat of what has become my annual Mother’s Day post. It was written while my mother was still alive.] Okay, who are these three dark beauties? A hint: one of them is the very first picture … Continue reading →
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More on the Ben Rhodes flap
On Thursday I wrote a very brief post linking to an article about Obama’s advisor Ben Rhodes and his influence on Obama’s foreign policy, particularly the Iran deal. The Rhodes article was so disturbing it’s been the talk of the … Continue reading →
The spam filter has a lot of work to do
Just a little inside baseball—I thought you might be curious to know how much spam the filter on a blog like this must block. There’s some variation, but depending on the day the number of spam comments that get caught … Continue reading →
Death by GPS
Here’s a description of how reliance on our GPS sytems can steer us terribly wrong, in the literal sense. Beware. The phenomenon of people automatically following their GPS’s directions is something I’ve noticed many times even in myself. We get … Continue reading →
Trump’s solution to the debt
For those of you who say that there’s no way Donald Trump could be a worse president than Hillary Clinton, I put before you this story: Asked whether the United States needed to pay its debts in full, or whether … Continue reading →
The future of Schengen
“Schengen” is the elimination of traditional border-crossing rules in Europe, a development that has been hailed and welcomed for years but which is increasingly threatened by Europe’s Muslim refugee crisis. If you’re interested (and I certainly am) in the topic, … Continue reading →
Trump, Clinton, and pathological lying vs. strategic lying
Pathological and/or compulsive lying is not the same as ordinary lying. Ordinary lying is strategic and episodic, and the person doing it usually realizes he/she is lying. There is a reason for the lying, a reason an objective observer can … Continue reading →
The potato and societal development
Some people eat potatoes on a daily basis. They feel that a meal without a potato is like a day without sunshine I’m not one of them, although I like potatoes and eat them about once a week. I especially … Continue reading →
The clueless, ignorant, and arrogant are in charge
Indeed, they are. But you probably already knew that.
Continue reading →Trump: it’s all mutable
Do you like Donald Trump’s policy papers? That’s nice, but they don’t mean much: Trump’s abrupt dismissal of his own tax plan, which he regularly cited on the campaign trail, came a day after he signaled a willingness to raise … Continue reading →
The history of the US primary system
Commenter “Nick” wrote: …[R]emember, the reason that the parties got rid of the back rooms was Nixon. The Republicans chose him for the ticket five times. Unlikable and corrupt. The system had to be scrapped after that. After I read … Continue reading →
One difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Republican Senator Ben Sasse has written an open letter to America. I agree with a great deal of it, but I wanted to take issue with something. Here’s an excerpt: In the history of polling, we’ve basically never had a … Continue reading →