Open thread 12/9/22
But why no mention of Mary Queen of Scots’ height? She was reportedly about six feet tall and Elizabeth I was at most 5’4″, so Mary would have towered over her had they actually met.
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[BUMPED UP: SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW POSTS] It’s getting close to the holidays, so please use the neo Amazon portal for your Amazon purchases
Please use this blog as the portal for your Amazon holiday gift purchases if you prefer – as they used to say of the yellow pages long ago, before the internet took over – to let your fingers do the … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) The mystery of woke capitalism. I first really noticed the enormous extent of corporate leftism during the lockdowns, and then I noticed it even more after the Floyd riots and Black Lives Matter. (2) There’s a lot of angst … Continue reading →
The Biden prisoner exchange deal
The non-art of this prisoner exchange deal: Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges, was released Thursday in a one-for-one prisoner swap for international arms dealer Viktor Bout, bringing an end … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/8/22
Make sure you hear the elderly man’s story through to the end:
Continue reading →How the FBI got the Hunter laptop story suppressed while attempting to preserve plausible deniability for itself
You can’t call the FBI dumb. It was clever – very very clever. The story is somewhat complex, but Miranda Devine of the NY Post has done good reporting on this from the start. I highly recommend reading her latest … Continue reading →
Divided party, united party
The divided party is the GOP and the united party is the Democrats. Oh, I know the Democrats aren’t really united. Not completely – just nearly completely. In recent decades and especially since Obama became president, they have purged their … Continue reading →
More post-Georgia-runoff musings
Fewer people on the right and left voted in the Georgia runoff than in the general – why? Yes, I know that’s pretty much always true of runoffs, but this was no ordinary runoff. Are people more interested in their … Continue reading →
Remember Pearl Harbor
[NOTE: This is a somewhat-edited version of a previous post.] Today is the eighty-first anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The generation that reacted to it by mobilizing and fighting World War II is on its very … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/7/22
I used to do some of this but definitely not all of it. I notice that this dancer has long toes and a long toe box. I have short toes and had a short toe box. Each situation presents its … Continue reading →
Warnock wins re-election
Of course he did. Of course he did. Although I knew this election was going to be happening Tuesday, I couldn’t bring myself to analyze it ahead of time because a Warnock win seemed a foregone conclusion. It felt as … Continue reading →
Trump’s explanation
Trump has attempted to explain what he meant and didn’t mean by his recent statement that caused so much controversy, about Twitter and the 2020 election. An excerpt: “The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that … Continue reading →