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The rise of family estrangement
This news is both sobering and unsurprising: Adult children vs. parents, siblings vs. siblings — calling quits on one’s kin seems increasingly common. In a 2025 YouGov poll of 4,395 US adults, nearly 4 in 10 respondents said they “no … Continue reading →
Trump’s actual statement in his “civilization” threat, and the reactions to it
By now you probably have read the many reactions to Trump’s Truth Social post last Tuesday, threatening to escalate. Both the woke left and the isolationist right spoke as with one voice: “He’s crazy! He’s a war criminal! He’s threatening … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/10/2026
And speaking of negotiations …
…Netanyahu made this announcement: “In light of Lebanon’s repeated requests to open direct negotiations with Israel, I instructed at the Government meeting yesterday to open direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible,” he said in a statement. “The negotiations … Continue reading →
Negotiating with Iran
Query: if everyone to the right of AOC knows that the Iranian leaders (or players to be named later) are not to be trusted, why would people think that the US negotiators are blissfully unaware of that and inevitably will … Continue reading →
DeCarlos Brown and competence to stand trial
I see a lot of people on the right are angry at this news about Iryna Zarutska’s accused killer: A December 29, 2025 report indicated that Brown was “incapable to proceed to trial,” according to the motion filed by one … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/9/2026
Time and tide wait for no man:
Continue reading →On the Georgia special election
Marjorie Taylor Greene is quite the piece of work, and she has become a big Trump-hater as well. Since she’s resigned from her Congressional seat, she’s been excoriating Trump and just about everything he does. She had long been an … Continue reading →
What Shakespeare had to say about need
Yesterday I wrote a post about Liz Warren’s desire to confiscate more of Jeff Bezos’ money. The title of the post was, “How much money does Jeff Bezos need, anyway?” Afterwards, a line from Shakespeare kept coming to me: “Oh … Continue reading →
More photos from Artemis
You can find them by clicking here. Once you get there, you can get information on each photo by clicking on the image. My favorite: The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II … Continue reading →
Predicting Trump; predicting the Iran War
It continually astounds me how many people make predictions about what will happen in Iran, when in many cases they don’t even seem to know what’s already happened. There’s an awful lot of garbage in and garbage out. A tremendous … Continue reading →