Open thread 9/16/2024
I’ve written about Clive Wearing before. He’s still alive now, at 86, although this documentary seems to have been made about twenty years ago:
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Another Trump assassination attempt
The suspect is in custody, and Trump is completely unharmed. You can read about it here.
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I think this video is kind of fun. My observations follow: (1) My mother called the refrigerator the icebox for most or maybe even all of her life. (2) I have very strong memories of transom windows. In particular, they … Continue reading →
Kamala Harris gives a 10-minute interview
As Archie Bunker would say, whoop-de-doo. I didn’t watch all of it; just a couple of minutes. But here’s an analysis from Elizabeth Stauffer at Legal Insurrection: If Harris’s reply sounds familiar to you, it’s because we heard parts of … Continue reading →
Has anyone else noticed that Biden looks kind of happy, now that he’s mostly-retired?
I think his smile here looks unusually genuine. And his banter sounds more on-point than is customary: Some people are interpreting this exchange as evidence he’s trying to sabotage Kamala Harris and boost Trump. I don’t think so. But I … Continue reading →
Fact-checking Kamala
The debate moderators last Tuesday left Candy Crowley circa 2012 behind in a cloud of dust in terms of strategic “fact-checking.” Crowley protected Obama in a 2012 debate against Mitt Romney by giving a dramatic and false “fact-check” (I wrote … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/14/2024
Caroline Glick on the debate
Glick was incensed by Harris’ remarks on Israel during the debate: ADDENDUM: Melanie Phillips writes about the media’s role in amplifying anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment: The impression given by the British media for the past 11 months of this war … Continue reading →
Haiti comes to Springfield and Venezuela comes to Aurora
Are Haitian immigrants killing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio? There no proof of it, and although there’s testimony to that effect from a few residents, it may be a mere rumor. In fact, my guess would be that it’s … Continue reading →
Celebrity endorsements: Taylor Swift
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for president (if you say “who’s Taylor Swift?”, then you probably have been living under a rock). This news underwhelms me, … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/13/2024
McCabe strikes again, says Trump is a Russian asset
McCabe is beating the same old drum: Andrew McCabe, the former FBI Deputy Director who Donald Trump fired in 2018, said on a podcast that the former president was a “de Facto Russian asset.” When Sir Richard Dearlove, a former … Continue reading →