Roundup
(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 →
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First day of the year musings
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 →
Auld Lang Syne
[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 →
Open thread 1/1/24
What are you doing New Year’s Eve?
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 →
Fouettes and The Nutcracker
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 →
Oh Canada … glorious and free
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 →
The Jews and the Rosenbergs
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 →
Open thread 12/30/23
It’s the prep work that counts:
Continue reading →What I wrote back in 2005, when Israel first withdrew from Gaza
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 →
Hamas: sexual sadists
I thought long and hard before deciding to give this link to a post at Legal Insurrection that details the sexual sadism of the Hamas operatives and Gazan civilians who participated in the October 7 murder and torture rampage in … Continue reading →
As Colorado goes, so goes Maine
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has removed Trump from the 2024 primary ballot – sort of: “I do not reach this conclusion lightly. Democracy is sacred,” Bellows wrote in her 34-page decision on multiple complaints challenging the 77-year-old Trump’s … Continue reading →