(1) Kamala is the media’s sweetheart all of a sudden. Please see this. And also: The way the US corporate media transformed Kamala Harris from a national embarrassment to a transformative pioneer overnight — without even pretending to care about … Continue reading →
It can be difficult for Americans to understand the way British elections work. I think Phillips gives the clearest explanation I’ve heard. The recent overwhelming victory by Labour gave the left enormous power, and because of the margin of victory … Continue reading →
… although the voting results in Pennsylvania count very much. I’m talking about this announcement: Pennsylvanians won’t always know the final results of all races on election night. Any changes in results that occur as counties continue to count ballots … Continue reading →
The other day I was watching a video about Margot Fonteyn, the most famous British ballet dancer of the mid-twentieth century. The video featured a few seconds of her dancing in Fokine’s Les Sylphides. It was a role I immediately … Continue reading →
Another piece of bad news from Britain: You can be jailed for social media posts that fall into some nebulously-defined “hate speech” category, and to make things even more ridiculous, at least one British cop, this one being Metropolitan Police … Continue reading →
I read Aldous Huxley’s dystopian Brave New World shortly after I had read Orwell’s dystopian Nineteen-Eighty-Four. I was around thirteen years old at the time, and I didn’t quite get Brave New World although I did finish it. In my … Continue reading →
I’ve written a little about polls this election cycle, but not all that much. And that’s true not only just now, when Harris has been rising in the polls in somewhat alarming fashion, but also when Trump seemed to be … Continue reading →
Commenter “Richard Aubrey” asks a question: Did dumping—or scaring off–Shapiro do enough to catch the attention of non-observant Jews? Shapiro’s observant. But does “No Jews Need Apply” get the attention of the ethnic-only Jews? Let me first note that even … Continue reading →
Some new footage from that day shows a chaotic situation with extremely poor communication, almost like that old “who’s on first?” routine from Abbot and Costello – only this isn’t funny: In other bodycam video, officers are clearly confused about … Continue reading →
Well, since they happened, they can’t be all that impossible, can they?
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