Here’s an FTX summary
Hard to not say “WTF?” about FTX. I wouldn’t have trusted these people with a dime. What on earth? This was never going to come out before the election.
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Canada set to put into effect medically assisted suicide for the mentally ill
Our peaceful and friendly neighbors to the north are planning on helping the mentally ill kill themselves: Changes are being made to Medical Assitance in Dying (MAID) which will expand eligibility criteria to eliminate the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” … Continue reading →
All the voting fraud possibilities, categorized
As I’ve written before, there is no way to know – and no way to prove, which is far more important – that there was enough fraud to have determined the outcome of this election. That doesn’t mean there can’t … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/15/22
An overview: “our democracy” is like a tram
When a party goes leftist and captures all the cultural organs too, as has happened in the US with the Democrats, what results is a constant indoctrination session, plus voting rules that make a comeback from the other party well-nigh … Continue reading →
Magical thinking on the right about fixing the voting rules
First, I want to say something about voting fraud. I have the same opinion about voting fraud in the 2022 election that I had in the 2020 election. It goes more or less like this: (1) The relaxed voting rules … Continue reading →
Here’s a thread to discuss FTX
Here’s an article called, “The Crypto-Ignorant Person’s Guide To What’s Going On With FTX And Founder Sam Bankman-Fried.” Well, you can’t get much more “crypto-ignorant” than I am, and so I read it. It’s okay as far as it goes, … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/14/22
Jorge Luis Borges and politics
I’ve always liked the work of Jorge Luis Borges. His writing isn’t to everyone’s taste, but it is to mine. I was reminded of Borges the other evening when I did a search for “science fiction stories about immortals” and … Continue reading →
Voting in Italy
From commenter “Paolo Pagliaro, who lives in Italy: In Italy we are able to have uncontested elections – even by a left party adopting “Fascist alert!” as the leading slogan – because strict in person vote, on paper, in a … Continue reading →
Digesting the 2022 election further
Each day the election results have become more and more clear and more and more depressing. It looks to me as though it will take a great deal of luck and almost a miracle to get a Senate majority, or … Continue reading →