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Peterson and Curry
Okay, so it’s long. An hour and a half long. You can speed it up by changing the settings (as I often do with interviews), but there’s no getting around the fact that, even then, it’ll be long. Of course, … Continue reading →
Twitter files blacklists
More Twitter files from Matt Taibbi: Journalist Matt Taibbi is back with perhaps the most bizarre installment yet of the Twitter Files. Americans’ freedom of speech is increasingly endangered by a vast, federally funded Disinformation Industrial Complex… In 2016, President … Continue reading →
Unreachable humans
I don’t mean in the psychological sense, I mean in the practical sense. Over time, answering machines have made it nearly impossible to call a medical office and reach a human being. I’ve just spent a fair amount of time … Continue reading →
Open thread 3/3/23
Did you ever wonder how it’s done?
Continue reading →I’m about to go to the dentist…
…to have a tooth-cleaning. Fun. It’s a gloomy day here.
Continue reading →United Airlines brags about all LGBTQ+ crew
It’s come to this: United Airlines took to Twitter this week to proclaim that an all-LGBTQ+ crew had just completed a flight from San Francisco to Sydney. A video inside the tweet showed two employees unveiling the image of a … Continue reading →
Racism as all-purpose accusation by black politicians was normed by Obama
Lori Lightfoot is blaming her political demise on racism as well as misogyny, although these two characteristics of hers – being black and being a woman – were already in evidence when she was first elected mayor of Chicago: “I’m … Continue reading →
Open thread 3/2/23
Possible ultrasound treatment for resistant high blood pressure
This sounds promising: The results of a new study released Tuesday in the journal JAMA Cardiology showed that the device routinely reduced daytime ambulatory blood pressure by an average of 8.5 points among middle-aged people with hypertension. Researchers at Columbia … Continue reading →
On SCOTUS and Biden’s student loan forgiveness proposal
It seems to be going poorly in its challenge in SCOTUS: Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loans is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court and most people are expecting the initiative to be shot down as unconstitutional. The left … Continue reading →
Lori Lightfoot gets the boot
She lost the primary to law-and-order candidate Paul Vallas, who is Chicago Public Schools CEO and city budget director. Next in line was Brandon Johnson, member of the Cook Country Board of Commissioners. On April 4th there will be a … Continue reading →