Still on the west coast…
…and I’m happy to say that I’m missing one of those deep-freezes back home.
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On the Chinese balloon
Biden and company are tiptoeing around China, not wanting to challenge or offend. It gives me an earworm for this song, which for some reason I can’t stand. Listen at your own peril:
Continue reading →Heather Mac Donald on the Tyre Nichols beating and racism
Heather Mac Donald has written a great deal about the racial aspect of alleged police brutality cases, and here she weighs in on the Tyre Nichols beating: Five Memphis officers responded to what was initially reported as a car driving … Continue reading →
It turns out that masks are mostly a symbolic talisman
Something like wearing garlic around your neck: In the community, mask-wearing “probably makes little to no difference” in either influenza-like or COVID-like illness (0.95) or “laboratory-confirmed” infections of either virus (1.01). While the confirmed-infections finding had a much wider confidence … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/3/23
Neo’s true confessions
Regular readers here know I don’t usually go in for personal revelations. It’s not that my life is absent from my own blog, but I ordinarily cite something only as a jumping-off place for some of my thoughts and reflections. … Continue reading →
Ilhan Omar gets a taste of the Democrats’ own medicine
Here’s what happened: The vote to yank Omar (D-Minn.) from the powerful panel after a heated floor debate broke along party lines, with 218 Republicans voting to strip her of the assignment and 211 Democrats backing their colleague. One Republican, … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/2/23
Posting later in the day
You may have noticed that the timing of my posts has shifted to later in the day. That’s mostly because I’m on the west coast, and should be here for about the next two weeks. It’s also, of course, because … Continue reading →
Andrew Branca on the Tyre Nichols beating
I haven’t yet had time to watch this analysis by Andrew Branca. But I’m posting the link here because I respect Branca a great deal, based on his work in the past.
Continue reading →Consider COVID vaccines and myocarditis
I’ve written before on the incidence of myocarditis after vaccination. It’s rare, although troublesome. Please see this, this, this, and this, and that’s just a sampler of what I’ve written rather than an exhaustive list. So I’ll not repeat myself … Continue reading →
But I was under the impression that “objectivity in the MSM” was already an oxymoron
From Jonathan Turley: We previously discussed the movement in journalism schools to get rid of principles of objectivity in journalism. Advocacy journalism is the new touchstone in the media even as polls show that trust in the media is plummeting. … Continue reading →