Surely you remember the Manfred Mann mid-70s hit “Blinded By the Light.” It’s a pretty nifty song, with an earworm-inducing hook. But the rest of the lyrics are unintelligible. It doesn’t really matter, because it’s so catchy. But no, that … Continue reading →
He’s 111. He may be the world’s oldest man, but there are 66 women who are older than he is. He lives in New York but was born in Poland. He seems to have all his marbles, but he’s frail:
Continue reading →Hillary Clinton had plenty of chances to condemn Boko Haram back when she was Secretary of State: …[Clinton’s] own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the … Continue reading →
From Daniel Henninger today in the WSJ: All of a sudden, the left has hit ramming speed across a broad swath of American life””in the universities, in politics and in government. People fingered as out of line with the far … Continue reading →
Want a break from politics? Let’s take a look at that 1965 song “Back in My Arms Again,” one of my favorites by the Supremes. Note how subtle and classy the sexuality of their performance is compared to today’s pop … Continue reading →
Here’s the latest installment in Harry Reid’s two minutes hate against the Koch Brothers: Charles and David Koch are one of the “main causes” of climate change, charged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor. “While the Koch … Continue reading →
What happened in North Carolina last night? I think that blogger CAC at Ace’s hits the nail on the head in this post, and points out a problem that GOP conservatives had better figure out a solution to or they’ll … Continue reading →
I remember reading decades ago about how quickly we judge people when we first meet them. Yes or no, stay or move on? This 1986 book said the judgments all happen within four minutes, but my impression is that it’s … Continue reading →
Why Monica, why now?: After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking … Continue reading →
No, this article giving six reasons for the above phenomenon did not appear in the Onion. My favorites are numbers three, four, and six: Obama’s been stymied by the vast and controlling “conservative media complex”; he’s had too much “policy … Continue reading →
One would think that this would be enormous news, and should have been from the moment the girls were kidnapped: Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls [kidnapped from school on April 14, almost 3 weeks ago] … Continue reading →
You might want to take a look at this summary of the varied ways in which Obamacare pays off the health insurance companies who play ball with the exchanges: risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors.
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