…just bein’ John McCain. Which is to say, a complete failure as a leader in the Senate, except to follow his own idiosyncratic idea of Senate collegiality, or some other outdated and chivalrous notion, or perhaps some sort of self-serving … Continue reading →
I got a Sodastream as a present a couple of years ago. It was a great gift. Everybody who knows me knows I drink a lot of plain club soda. This gadget allows you to make your own (and not … Continue reading →
…today’s earlier post “The latest battle in the Republican Civil War”: Two good examples of what I was talking about in that post are the subject headings of two emails I received today from Tea Party mailing lists. The first … Continue reading →
…is over, the boy is safe, and the man is dead. The authorities showed remarkable presence of mind and patience in handling this one.
Continue reading →…here’s the audio. To the best of my recollection, the sound quality was somewhat better when it aired on radio; I think making a copy degrades the audio. But it’s still easily intelligible. I just sound a little gurgly and … Continue reading →
After careful sleuthing and authentication, it seems that a skeleton found in a Leicester car park in Britain is really the remains of King Richard III. Quite extraordinary; the site of the burial place had been lost, although researchers followed … Continue reading →
Whatever the Democratic Party doesn’t succeed in doing to destroy the Republicans, the Republicans seem determined to do to themselves. It’s getting very, very old. And by “Republicans” I don’t just mean what other people mean when they use the … Continue reading →
…seems really loooong to me. But then, I’m not a football fan. I went out to dinner with a friend, talked for hours, came back, and I see they’re just starting the fourth quarter. But now I’ve learned there was … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP: and for more on the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the film, please see this and this.] Today is Groundhog Day, and I think it very appropriate—very—to repeat an older post on the subject of the movie of … Continue reading →
…Hagel was abominable, but those Republicans were so darn mean to him. This was the inevitable way they needed to go, right? Hagel turns out to be unprincipled and/or to have dreadful principles, plus no ability to articulate them or … Continue reading →
Iceland finally lets a girl use her own name. The amount of cultural control in these countries is very very foreign to us: A 15-year-old Icelandic girl has been granted the right to legally use the name given to her … Continue reading →
…young’uns. Seemingly-outdated skills can come in handy in a pinch. [Hat tip: Althouse.]
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