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The definition of “urban”
I recently came across a statistic indicating that “In 2020, about 82.66 percent of the total population in the United States lived in cities and urban areas.” That rather astounded me. But what I didn’t know (and what a commenter … Continue reading →
The death of Patrick Lyoya: does this story sound familiar?
A white police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan has been charged with second-degree murder for shooting Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old black man he had stopped for a traffic violation. The father of the dead man says, “We strongly believed there … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) Here’s Alan Dershowitz on the January 6th propaganda theater and the ACLU – not that anyone on the left cares anymore what Dershowitz says: During a recent appearance on the Just the News, Not Noise television show, the professor … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/13/22
You gotta start young:
Continue reading →Toupees and arrogance
Here’s a pet peeve of mine. I’ve often heard people say that they can always tell when a person is wearing a toupee. But I think that’s a stupid thing to say. Sometimes you can tell, with a badly-made toupee. … Continue reading →
Tell us what you really think, Larry
Seems true.
Continue reading →School police chief Arredondo speaks
“Everybody knows” that the cowardly Uvalde cops sat in the hall for over an hour while children were being shot and school police chief Arredondo gave the order to stand down, although of course the officers could have gotten the … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/11/22
I found these two videos in an old post of mine. They both feature the same well-known pas de deux from the second act of “Swan Lake.” The first video is of Natalia Makarova and Ivan Nagy in 1976, a … Continue reading →
Michigan elections, Michigan justice: Part I
The FBI and DOJ are not even pretending to be delivering equal justice. It’s all political now. Exhibit A is the FBI arrest of Michigan GOP governor candidate Ryan Kelly for four misdemeanors allegedly committed on January 6, 2021. His … Continue reading →
Upward and onward with inflation
Anyone who goes to the grocery store or gets a tank of gas knows about inflation anyway, but maybe not every single detail such as the fact that the increase in May was at the highest level since 1981: Inflation … Continue reading →
Did I say that Felicia Sonmez was a viper?
I did, and ’twas only yesterday. I take it back; she’s far far worse than that. I had forgotten – or perhaps never realized – that she has a history described in this lengthy Reason article from three years ago. … Continue reading →