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What I wrote about COVID and fear – in May of 2020
[NOTE: Here it is, and I think it holds up quite nicely] I have gotten to the point where I no longer put any trust in the prognostications of scientists about COVID-19 and the comparison of various social policy tactics … Continue reading →
Entrapping the Proud Boys?
Julie Kelly – who has done the best work on the January 6th defendants and the evidence against them – writes: It’s week five of the Justice Department’s most high-profile—and high-stakes—criminal trial related to the events of January 6, 2021. … Continue reading →
Why is Nikki Haley running for president?
Here are the reasons Haley herself gives: “It’s time for a new generation of leadership,” Haley stated. Yeah, but Ron DeSantis is even younger “[Other countries] all think we can be bullied, kicked around. You should know this about me, … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/15/23
Valentine’s Day: some thoughts and a poem
Today is Valentine’s Day and I’m feeling somewhat raw, for obvious reasons. And yet I’ve never been really big on Valentine’s Day celebrations. After all, for the last thirty years or so I haven’t been able to eat chocolate without … Continue reading →
I haven’t written much about the balloon shoot-downs
But my summary reaction is no, I don’t think it’s aliens. However, people seem to love to talk about the issue, so here’s a thread for it.
Continue reading →The Ohio train derailment
What on earth is going on here? A February 3 train derailment in an Ohio town has spewed a bunch of dangerous chemicals into the air: Hazardous material expert Sil Caggiano told WXBN, “We basically nuked a town with chemicals … Continue reading →
Sowell on multiculturalism
Yesterday, commenter “Paul Nachman” kindly drew our attention to this talk by Thomas Sowell on multicultualism. It was given some time in the 1990s, and displays Sowell’s characteristic sharpness of observation and clarity of expression He grasped the problem long … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/14/23
The Met jumps on the “even abolitionist anti-slavery artists were actually celebrating slavery” bandwagon
Heather Mac Donald describes the latest art-world insanity, this time at the Met. You may have to concentrate very very hard to follow it: Why Born Enslaved! has been understood since its creation as an antislavery work. The Met, however, … Continue reading →
When did Bermuda shorts become a thing?
That highly pressing question has been asked in the comments on the open thread, and I will take it on myself to answer it without looking anything up. The Fifties was the height (or length) of the Bermudas craze. Only … Continue reading →