In an interview with Nigel Farndale of the Telegraph [hat tip: Maggie’s Farm], Art Garfunkle relates a story about George Harrison: …I [Farndale] ask about the Beatles, specifically George, who felt his talents were overshadowed. “George came up to me … Continue reading →
She has a host of other videos dedicated to explaining blindness and how she copes (including some that show her applying makeup with an expert touch). I haven’t watched most of them, but her attitude and ability to articulate her … Continue reading →
Déjé vu isn’t the only one, although it’s the one most of us have heard about. But then there’s déjé vécu, déjé visité, and a host of others. Sound familiar?
Continue reading →If you were looking for a monument to supreme egotism, you would have to go far to beat Obama’s statement in this interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg: “Look, 20 years from now, I’m still going to be around, God … Continue reading →
Much of the time I disagree with Kirsten Powers. But she’s become extremely hard-hitting on the subject of media bias, and in that particular cause she’s becoming a real Joan of Arc. Make no mistake, views such as hers are … Continue reading →
An alert reader send me a link to this article debunking the study described in this previous post of mine. Donald Green, the Columbia political science professor who was the senior author on the study, which was published in Science … Continue reading →
Emma Sky has written a book entitled The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq. A review can be found here, and it sounds fascinating, although I haven’t read it. A British Oxford-educated progressive with extensive experience in the … Continue reading →
…and pointing with anger and derision at the revelations that Josh Duggar, now 27 and married with children, once sexually molested several minor girls and the issue was dealt with extra-judicially. I’ve written about the Duggars before, here. They are … Continue reading →
I mentioned earlier that some people were having a problem getting to the blog or going to links on this blog. They were being redirected to a number of other websites instead. Apparently there is some problem with sitemeter that … Continue reading →
While it may be that Everybody Loves Raymond, does everyone actually love sex, as film director Gaspar Noe said at the Cannes Film Festival the other day?: “I have friends who love money, some who love coke, some who love … Continue reading →
“What difference does it make?” has become a joking ironic reference to something that actually is important but that is being treated as unimportant because it reflects poorly on a favored Democrat. Hillary asked the question two and a half … Continue reading →
…in the JV. There is no way that Obama is ever going to send any significant or effective number of troops to Iraq, or initiate any policy that has a prayer of being effective, no matter what ISIS does. His … Continue reading →