Famous Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is in big trouble. It isn’t the first time. But what’s going on now is very disturbing, both in human terms and for what it says about the current Russian government (much of which we … Continue reading →
It’s long puzzled me why it is that so many conservatives seem to think that conservatism’s superiority to liberalism ought to be obvious, and that people would gravitate towards conservatism once they understood what it was and the logic behind … Continue reading →
I do believe that Chopin just might be my favorite composer. I fixed on him when I was still a very young child, because he was the most-played composer to accompany my ballet classes. I didn’t even know his name … Continue reading →
There’s a lot of talk lately about how everyone was predicting Trump would go nowhere—except, of course, his fervent supporters, who believed almost from the start that he could win the nomination. Looking back, my recollection was that at the … Continue reading →
The Chicago Tribune states an idea I’ve thought about quite a bit lately: …[T]the odds are very good that the next president will be someone most voters actively dislike or even detest. I don’t think there’s ever been a situation … Continue reading →
…we realize that we have no idea how to set legal limits for driving under the influence: The study commissioned by AAA’s safety foundation said it’s not possible to set a blood-test threshold for THC, the chemical in marijuana that … Continue reading →
Hey, why not?: If you can’t seem to kick that awful nail-biting habit, you might as well get some flavor out of it with KFC’s new chicken-flavored edible nail polish. It comes in two different flavors ”“ ”˜Original’ (beige), and … Continue reading →
The always-fascinating Richard Fernandez offers some quotes from anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer that I want to call attention to: “Against stupidity we are defenseless,” [Bonhoeffer] wrote, because imbeciles never feel a qualm. Against the stupid “neither protests nor the use of … Continue reading →
[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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →