Honoring veterans
On Veterans Day.
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Perry and the performing candidates
Perry’s attempt at damage control was to appear on the Letterman show and joke about his lapse. It may be the best approach at this point; we’ll see whether it actually works: What strikes me about the whole thing is … Continue reading →
A few words about child sexual abuse
In response to some speculation in the comments section of this post, here are a few facts about how the sexual abuse of children usually works, especially when the perp (like Sandusky) is a serial abuser of unrelated children: (1) … Continue reading →
Guide to living to extreme old age…
…while remaining healthy: have the right genes. The study in the article was on exceedingly old Ashkenazi Jews. But that particular group is no more likely to live past 100 than other groups. It was just a convenient population for … Continue reading →
Perry: oops?
The blogosphere is agog with talk about how Perry’s gaffe in the debate last night has finished him. And it did look bad, although it’s the sort of senior moment (or semi-senior moment) many of us of a certain age … Continue reading →
Paterno and the duty to report
What did Joe Paterno know and when did he know it? And what was his duty based on what he knew, and did he shirk it? I won’t mince words here: what is alleged to have taken place at the … Continue reading →
Yahoo: back to the Classic
Instead of wandering around fruitlessly at the Yahoo site, looking for a way to get back to Yahoo Classic email, it finally dawned on me that I might be able to actually write to the folks at Yahoo and request … Continue reading →
The Kraushaar complaints: what I’d like to know is…
…what’s “a spokeswoman in the office of the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration“? Because that’s what Karen Kraushaar does these days. Seems a rather odd job description. But remind me never to send Kraushaar any of those silly … Continue reading →
How do you fight back?
I’ve long had a special interest in the topic of false accusations—or rather, how to tell false from true, when the only evidence is the word of one party against another. Whether the charge be date rape, recovered memories of … Continue reading →
The National Enquirer would be ashamed…
…to publish this story. But not Politico. [ADDENDUM: Actually, it seems the story first appeared in the Washington Examiner, a fairly conservative rag.]
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…who’s fortunate enough (or unfortunate enough, depending on the results) to have a possibly-exonerating DNA test to fall back on. In the case of a false accusation of fathering a baby, it’s a simple way to prove the truth or … Continue reading →
Featured dancer: Melissa Hough
I’ve just discovered a not-so-well-known dancer named Melissa Hough, who used to dance with the Boston Ballet but is now a member of the Houston Ballet. Hough reminds me of retired ballerina Cynthia Gregory, who used to dance with American … Continue reading →