I have more to say today but …
… it’s been unusually busy, and I’ll post in an hour or two.
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China bust
I must confess that I initially found this article rather confusing. The headline: “Maine authorities bust illegal marijuana operation in China.” Intriguing, but what on earth were Maine authorities doing in China, of all places? And arresting people? The article … Continue reading →
The Iranian blast was ISIS
In no surprise whatsoever, ISIS has claimed “credit” for the blast in Iran: ISIS claims responsibility for a pair of explosions that killed at least 84 people near the grave of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/4/23
This is versatility:
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Actually, it started over a month ago when I was out west and broke a tooth. Split it longitudinally down the middle between front half and back half, with the back half disappearing and leaving the front part looking quite … Continue reading →
A terrorist attack of unknown origin in Iran
As a sort of companion piece to my previous post today, there’s this news from Iran: Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 103 people and wounded … Continue reading →
Israeli drones kill a group of Hamas leaders
The report: Deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday night in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a stronghold of the allied Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, signalling the conflict between Hamas and Israel could … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/3/24
There’s a chemo shortage
This is disturbing – a shortage of chemo drugs, as well as other generic medications. The reason seems at first to be one of those “unintended consequences” things: In interviews, more than a dozen current and former executives affiliated with … Continue reading →
Anti-Semitism is just a symptom of a much greater and more pervasive rot
And of course it’s not just Harvard. Would that it were. But the problem is pervasive in academia and beyond. This Legal Insurrection piece spotlights an excellent editorial by Rabbi David Wolpe in the Harvard Crimson. Wolpe, who is a … Continue reading →
Claudine Gay resigns the Harvard presidency
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 →