Sixty-seven years ago today Pearl Harbor was attacked. That’s long enough ago that only the elderly remember the day and its aftermath with any clarity. Several generations—including my own tiresome one, the baby boomers—have come up since then, and the … Continue reading →
The title of this post was inspired by the saying, “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?”—one of the stupidist slogans of the peace movement of the 60s. The news that Iraq has ratified a formal US/Iraq military and … Continue reading →
Here’s more on the Indian police who couldn’t shoot straight—or at all. Once you read it, you will no longer be surprised that the police were ineffective during the Mumbai attacks. But you might be even more enraged about it … Continue reading →
Or perhaps it’s just a sign that people have gone stark raving mad. What am I talking about? Back in mid-September, when the economy was already rather iffy, the “artist” (I use that word advisedly) Damien Hurst had a monster … Continue reading →
Just as in Lake Woebegone, where all the children are above average, it seems that most “older” people (defined as over seventy) are convinced they look younger than they actually are. About ten years younger on average, in fact. They … Continue reading →
I just learned via American Digest that the folksinger Odetta has died at the age of seventy-seven. In my youth, I saw her perform at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village. Since that was quite some time ago, I suppose … Continue reading →
At some unspecified, unknown moment last night, my sitemeter reached the two million hit mark. It’s not a milestone I ever expected to reach when I began blogging—I would have been surprised to get a total of one thousand hits … Continue reading →
Remember that sobering poll of Obama voters? Several people (myself included) were interested in a similar poll of McCain voters. A reader alerted me to the fact that such a poll is now available, here.
Continue reading →Peter Schiff is an interesting case of prognostication. Take a look at this video (or any number of others), and you will find him describing the financial crisis-to-be with a fair amount of detail and specificity before it happened: So, … Continue reading →
The US says it warned Indian authorities that terrorists from Pakistan would be arriving by water and targeting Mumbai. This sounds like a “good news/bad news” story: it’s reassuring the US knew that much, distressing that India chose to ignore … Continue reading →
Blogger Yaacov Ben Moshe is an essayist whose thoughts are well worth reading. In this post, he ruminates on Mumbai and its significance, as well as his rage at the following bumper sticker, which he saw recently on a car … Continue reading →
No doubt you are aware that the title of this post is not a metaphor for a buying frenzy, but a description of something quite literal. At the Valley Stream, NY, Walmart, on the day after Thanksgiving, an employee was … Continue reading →