For anyone still scratching his or her head about what on earth FTX was supposed to do and what it actually did, here’s a good summary entitled “What You Need to Know about the Colossal Mess of FTX”. Some excerpts … Continue reading →
A magical place I happened across in Vermont last summer. The sides of the cliffs are high and sheer: The scene made me think of this Gauguin:
Continue reading →(1) It seems that despite a scheduled mandatory recount, Boebert has been re-elected to the House. (2) I’m getting that old deja vu feeling: Garland announces there will be a special counsel to investigate Donald Trump. For what? For possibly … Continue reading →
First we were told it was probably a bona fide accident. Then we were told it was likely to have been a purposeful crime. Now we hear this: Twenty-five recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department got mowed down … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Whenever I have a math-heavy post like this, I always get nervous that I’ve made an arithmetical error.] I see it again and again: the assertion that the 2022 midterm results were almost unheard-of, because a president’s first midterm … Continue reading →
The WaPo says of the Mar-A-Lago raid: “never mind.” I guess post-election, Now It Can Be Told that there was no there there:
Continue reading →(1) Almost everything you wanted to know about voting in California but were afraid to ask – once you read this piece, you’ll see why it takes so long to count the votes in California, even if fraud isn’t going … Continue reading →
What a guy: The FTX owner told [interviewer] Piper that his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison’s company Alameda was responsible for gambling and losing his company’s money – to which he was “oblivious” until it was too late… “And also thought Alameda … Continue reading →
A tiny glimpse of one of my favorite ballets of all time: The female soloist is a dancer I’ve not seen before. But as soon as she began to move, I recognized that she’s a dancer of a type I … Continue reading →
The GOP seems to have taken the House, at least according to reports like this (see also this). The MSM keeps saying it’s “on track” to take it or “on the cusp” of taking it, but it does seem to … Continue reading →
In a move surprising no one, but elating many and disappointing many others, Trump officially announces his 2024 candidacy. This will further divide the already-divided right, which in my opinion doesn’t bode well for the already-highly-challenged GOP in 2024. On … Continue reading →