I assume she’ll now achieve a sort of martyr status on the left: the racist right plus the Jews drove her out, or something like that. At any rate, Gay has resigned. I believe it was more the plagiarism evidence … Continue reading →
(1) There’s been large earthquake in Japan, and a tsunami warning. It’s hard to get a sense of whether there’s much loss of life, but it doesn’t seem as though there is. Plenty of property damage, though. (2) Let’s hear … Continue reading →
January first always feels like a clean slate day. And yet it’s really just a continuum. But that “clean slate” feeling is why people make resolutions. I don’t make formal ones anymore – I know better. But I’m always resolving … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of an older post.] The lyrics were written in Scots dialect by the poet Robert Burns in 1788. That’s a lot of auld lang syne ago. But the song—set to a traditional folk … Continue reading →
And me? Glad you asked. Nada, zip, zilch. Oh, I might visit a nearby friend for a short while and have a sip of champagne, a tiny toast to the end of 2023, a year I’m pretty sure most people … Continue reading →
For me, it was easy to see what was unusual about this dancer’s fouettes – because of my long ballet background which includes some teaching. The narrator explains somewhat, but I’ll add that holding the arms above the head increases … Continue reading →
Our neighbors to the north are apparently about to allow assisted suicide for the mentally ill: Canada already has one of the most liberal assisted death laws in the world, offering the practice to terminally and chronically ill Canadians. But … Continue reading →
Commenter “y81” writes: … [I]f you had polled American Jews in 1960 on whether the Rosenbergs were guilty: a large number, perhaps a majority, would have said that they were innocent, by which they meant primarily that the Rosenbergs’ hearts … Continue reading →
It’s the prep work that counts:
Continue reading →I knew I must have written about the withdrawal at the time. But I didn’t have a clue what I had said or what I predicted, if anything. So I went back to look and here it is (the comments … Continue reading →