Open thread 7/12/22
Continuing our Open Thread hippopotamus theme from yesterday – why not? – we have this:
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As Boudin goes, so goes Gascon?
One can hope: A preliminary count of signatures submitted in a petition to recall Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón totals 715,833, L.A. County elections officials reported Saturday. L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said his office has completed … Continue reading →
Bari Weiss on our revolution of culture
Several people have recommended this piece by Bari Weiss. It’s the transcript of a speech she gave to the students at the new University of Austin (UATX), a school dedicated to old-fashioned things like free speech. An excerpt: Disinvitation—now called … Continue reading →
Going green in The Netherlands and Sri Lanka
It’s hard to say whether a governmental policy of required Green farming – currently causing problems in The Netherlands and even bigger ones in Sri Lanka – is the result of wishful thinking on the part of the government or … Continue reading →
Open thread 7/11/22
Do not mess with hippos:
Continue reading →Martine Van Hamel: the greatest Myrtha of them all
Who’s Myrtha, you ask? It’s a role in the famous Romantic ballet “Giselle,” one of the earliest ballets in existence and still performed today. Myrtha is the head honcho of the Wilis, those spirits of dead girls jilted by lovers, … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) Elon Musk wants to pull out of the Twitter deal because of Twitter bots. Then again, does he really, or is this just a negotiating tactic? More here: Twitter initially rejected Musk’s $54 per share bid, called Musk names, … Continue reading →
More on the Alba case; plus the election of Manhattan’s DA Alvin Bragg
There’s more on the genesis of the Simon/Alba confrontation, at least according to the deceased’s family (by the way, Alba’s age has been variously listed as 51 and as 61, but it appears to actually be 61): Simon was killed … Continue reading →
Open thread 7/9/22
The charging of Jose Alba and the war on self-defense
The war on self-defense continues, in New York City this time. You know how it goes with these Soros-backed leftist DAs such as New York’s Alvin Bragg. When Bragg was elected in January, I wrote this post about his plans … Continue reading →
Boris Johnson resigns
I guess the pressure to resign was finally too much for Johnson: After resisting calls to step down for nearly two days, Johnson admitted to the world’s media outside No. 10 Downing Street in London that “it is clearly now … Continue reading →
Shinzo Abe assassinated: RIP
Former long-term Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a gunman while Abe was giving a speech in the city of Nara. Japan is a society with a low murder rate and also what are perhaps the strictest gun … Continue reading →