The guilty police
Some of the recent furor over some of the incidents in which black people have died at the hands of police is understandable. The death of Eric Garner was a situation in which it is not a stretch to say … Continue reading →
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Picture time
This sort of thing always intrigues me. It’s a series of photographs of the four Brown sisters, taken every single year for the last forty years. My guess is that the sisters are very roughly my age, and it’s a … Continue reading →
Columbia is investigating Rolling Stone re Erdely’s UVA piece
This Slate article makes the point that there’s a lot we don’t know, and need to know, about Erdely’s article and the “research” behind it, as well as the decisions made by editors at the publication Rolling Stone. Another issue … Continue reading →
Intraspecies rescues
It’s a dog-save-dog world: Monkey see, monkey rescue [hat tip: Ace of Spades:
Continue reading →Merry Christmas!!
On Christmas Day—blog? I’d rather have grog, Or maybe eggnog, Then go walk the dog. Or watch a Yule Log, And eat like a hog, Then go for a jog. Blogging’s a bog. My mind’s in a fog, Or maybe … Continue reading →
Merry Christmas…
…from Yaacov Ben Moshe at Breath of the Beast: It was those fiercely independent Protestants who set the tone for the nation in which we now live. Their adamant spiritual presumption of the liberty of the human soul is, still … Continue reading →
‘Twas the Blogger’s Night Before Christmas
[NOTE: This small poetic effort of mine has become somewhat of a holiday tradition at neo-neocon. So here it comes again—just like the holiday itself. Merry Christmas Eve to you all!] ‘TWAS THE BLOGGER’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS ‘Twas the night … Continue reading →
The rent-controlled apartment market in NYC is crazy
This is the sort of thing you get: An unemployed Upper West Side woman using Airbnb to rent out rooms in her huge Central Park West apartment has been ordered to stop doing it by a Manhattan judge. Supreme Court … Continue reading →
The thin blue line: another white Missouri policeman kills a young black man in self-defense
That’s my headline, and I’m sticking to it until there’s any credible evidence to the contrary. So far, the facts seem to go like this: In Berkeley, Missouri (not too far from Ferguson), a call comes in at 11:15 PM … Continue reading →
Sony’s “The Interview” to be released on Christmas Day
So, will it all turn out to have been a good PR move? Meanwhile, North Korea is still having connectivity problems, while the US denies any involvement.
Continue reading →Violence against police: the widows speak
Adelaide Laurie is the widow of police officer Rocco Laurie, assassinated in a 1972 ambush along with partner Gregory Foster (I wrote about the incident here). As far as I can tell she has never remarried, although she and her … Continue reading →
Entertain this hypothetical
I though I’d highlight the following comment, which I found at this article: I have no doubt that if, by some miracle, these two slain officers [Ramos and Liu] had been able to escape their fate by killing this monster … Continue reading →