Open thread 6/24/23
I’ve loved this song for a long long time. And I find Rudetsky amusing and so knowledgeable about pop and show music:
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What’s going on in Russia right now?
Don’t know. But here’s a thread if you want to discuss it.
Continue reading →And speaking of adventure tourism…
…there’s this: …[T]he Taliban are now selling tickets to visit the ancient monuments that they demolished in 2001, in an attempt to boost Afghanistan’s flagging economy. The Washington Post reported that Afghanistan’s tourist plan includes a pair of 1,400-year-old giant … Continue reading →
California bill: therapist power over parent power
California is getting close to passing another dangerous law that undermines parental authority: California Democrats on Tuesday advanced legislation to let mental health professionals remove children from their homes and place them in state custody without parental consent. The Senate … Continue reading →
Waivers and risk: the Titan submersible
Commenter “sailorcurt” makes a interesting point concerning the Titan submersible when he writes: Freedom also comes with the responsibility to accept the consequences for those choices and actions. “Did the waiver that had to be signed by the clients/tourists actually … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/23/23
The IRS wanted to charge Hunter Biden with felony tax evasion, but it was blocked by the DOJ
The two-tiered “justice” system marches on. This time the IRS was willing to apply the usual standard to Biden’s son Hunter and charge him with a felony, but the DOJ never carried out the recommendation: Rep. Jason Smith (R., Mo.) … Continue reading →
Our two-tiered system of justice: Harriet Hageman queries Durham
I hadn’t previously heard much about Hageman, the Wyoming Republican who trounced Liz Cheney this past go-round. But here she is, describing how our two-tiered system of justice at the hands of the FBI and the DOJ has damaged the … Continue reading →
On the Titanic submersible rescue operation and extreme adventure excursions
I’ll start out by saying that I think the five people in the submersible are dead, and that even days ago I thought they probably had been dead from the moment the vehicle stopped communicating with the mother ship about … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/22/23
A weird sort of charm:
Continue reading →“Cis”: the worm turns on Twitter
“Cis” is one of those insidious politically-motivated language changes of which the left is so fond. “Cis man” and “cis woman” supposedly mean what was formerly covered by the terms “man” and “woman.” Musk has announced a new Twitter policy … Continue reading →
The Webb telescope and habitable planets
Let’s get far away from politics, if only for a moment. Far, far, far away. For the second time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has looked for and failed to find a thick atmosphere on an exoplanet in one … Continue reading →