RIP Paul Fussell
Author Paul Fussell has died at 88. I read only two things he wrote, but both of them were extraordinary. The first was his magnum opus, the one that made him famous (at least in some circles), The Great War … Continue reading →
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Whatever you may think of Bristol Palin…
…her son Tripp is one seriously adorable child:
Continue reading →Obama’s attack on Romney’s Bain record isn’t going so well
During the Republican primaries, Romney was attacked mightily for his tenure at Bain. Gingrich was the main—although hardly the only—source of the criticism. His supporters said that, far from harming Romney if Mitt ended up being the nominee, this would … Continue reading →
The changing eyewitness testimony
Several eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman-Martin case have changed their original accounts, mostly to reflect more poorly on Zimmerman. This is disturbing, but not at all unusual. Eyewitness testimony, which many people give extreme weight to, is notoriously unreliable. And that’s … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →What’s bad for the goose…
…is bad for the gander. So says the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The subject matter is PSA tests for routine prostate cancer screening, and here’s the post I wrote about that very same panel’s recommendations on mammograms for women … Continue reading →
Tiresome arguments, necessary arguments
I was starting to write a post about this Ed Koch endorsement of Obama. My plan was to point out what the piece said about Romney’s positions vs. his actual stated positions, highlighting the sometimes subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle distortions … Continue reading →
Perceptions actually changing in the Zimmerman-Martin case
Some of the new evidence about the Zimmerman-Martin confrontation actually appears to be penetrating the public awareness, according to the results of this poll: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 24% of American Adults still believe the … Continue reading →
North Carolina teacher joins the Thought Police
My first thought on reading this was how interesting it is that new technology—the ability to easily record such incidents—is now being used by regular folk to fight efforts at thought control such as the one here. Quite different from … Continue reading →
You may notice that…
…my blogroll is finally back, updated. You can find it if you scroll down on the right sidebar.
Continue reading →The “nauseating” attack on Romney’s Bain record
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark and Obama supporter, voices an opinion and then retracts it somewhat: On NBC’s Meet the Press earlier on Sunday, Booker had strongly criticized an Obama campaign ad which attacked presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s tenure … Continue reading →
Al Megrahi…
…died yesterday, a bit short of three years after he was released on compassionate grounds by Scottish authorities to die in three months. The reactions of the Lockerbie victims’ families were varied, as expected, since there is a rather vocal … Continue reading →