And let’s not forget about…
…the results of yesterday’s primaries.
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A few more things about the Texas school shooting
(1) Commenter “cb” has a good question: where did Ramos get the money for the guns? They wouldn’t be cheap. (2) “cb” also wonders whether this story from 2018 might have involved Ramos. Strangely enough, it’s written by someone whose … Continue reading →
Entrapment redux?
When I heard that an Iraqi man living in the US had recently been arrested for plotting to assassinate George W. Bush, my first thought was possible entrapment. It didn’t used to be that way for me. Although I often … Continue reading →
More on the Texas school shooting, and the perpetrator
It is depressing in so many many ways. First and foremost, there are the victims, now listed as 19 children and 2 adults. The cold-blooded killing of children is evil personified, and most human beings are especially revolted and outraged … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/25/22
Horrific school shooting in Texas [scroll down for UPDATES]
There has been another school shooting, this time in the town of Uvalde, Texas. Fourteen precious and innocent elementary school children and one teacher are dead. The shooter was named Salvatore Romas (or probably Ramos) and was apparently killed by … Continue reading →
RIP Roger Angell
Roger Angell, noted baseball writer for The New Yorker, has died at the age of 101. I had no idea he was still alive, but I used to read him regularly during the thirty or so years when I had … Continue reading →
Lying for rhetorical advocacy
On the judicial nominee front: Nusrat Choudhury, Biden’s pick for a New York City federal trial court, allegedly claimed during a 2015 panel that police shoot unarmed black people every day in the United States. Choudhury defended the statement in … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/24/22
Seems to me there’s a reason that most of these are less common:
Continue reading →The Aussie election
Australia recently had an election in which the far left won. I hadn’t followed it at all till I heard the news, but the BBC calls it a “great shock to the system”: Victory belongs to Anthony Albanese, only the … Continue reading →
I have some things I have to do this afternoon…
…and probably will be posting again in late afternoon or early evening.
Continue reading →Sowell on the history of Ukraine and Russia
This is a reading from Thomas Sowell’s book Conquest and Cultures, that was witten in 1998. I’ve never read it but it sounds interesting – of course, virtually all his books sound interesting and probably are. This is a good … Continue reading →