Plastic surgery regret
You know how it is with YouTube. You look at one video on a certain subject, and after that – at least for a while – the algorithm floods you with similar videos, tempting you to watch. So I must … Continue reading →
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Why is Kamala Harris keeping pace in a race that seems 50/50 at this point?
After all, shouldn’t she be losing badly? She’s part of the Biden administration, and by most metrics they’ve done a lousy job compared to Trump’s track record. She doesn’t speak well, especially when unscripted. She has an off-putting personality to … Continue reading →
John Kerry: the elites and free speech
John Kerry’s not alone in putting down free speech, of course. He’s speaking for the elitist left the world over, who want to block free speech in the name of wanting to block “dangerous disinformation.” The former Secretary of State … Continue reading →
Open thread 10/5/2024
The dockworker strikers do an Emily Litella
A crisis averted: The theory is that a dockworkers’ strike would have been too damaging to the Democrats, so the problems have been patched up for now: “Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by … Continue reading →
Vance explains his now-famous side-eye
You know that now-famous “look” Vance gave during his debate with Walz? The one that seemed to gaze at the viewer and say: “Can you believe this guy? Well, Vance has now explained that what he really was doing was … Continue reading →
The rest is history: video on the roots of Nazi ideology
I’ve continued to watch videos on that YouTube history channel I recommended recently, “The rest is history.” These podcasts are fascinating and also highly entertaining, even if they sometimes involve discussions of very dark matters. Last night I listened to … Continue reading →
Open thread 10/4/2024
He didn’t look all that different back then:
Continue reading →Another Hezbollah bunker, busted
Nasrallah’s likely successor and a whole bunch of other Hezbollah higher-ups were meeting in a bunker, and then: A series of huge explosions rocked the densely populated neighborhoods just south of Beirut at midnight on Thursday as Israel kept up … Continue reading →
Judicial election interference
From Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, on Judge Chutkan’s release of Jack Smith’s new motion against Trump [my emphasis]: Yeah [Jack Smith is] trying to have a damning trial of Trump without a trial in the face of the … Continue reading →
Another terrorist gone, another captive freed
Do you remember the famous Ramallah lynching in 2000 of two Israeli reservists who’d had the terrible bad luck to wander into Palestinian territory, to be dismembered by the crowd who stormed a police station where they were being held? … Continue reading →
More on the Helene aftermath
It’s an ongoing disaster in North Carolina and also Georgia, and I’m reading varying reports on rescue efforts. It seems fairly clear that preparedness was lacking although it was known that the storm would be pretty bad in North Carolina, … Continue reading →