Funny how the experts keep getting the prognostications wrong. Such as: Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after a key August inflation report came in hotter than expected, hurting investor optimism for cooling prices and a less aggressive Federal Reserve. The … Continue reading →
Not too many hurricanes so far this year: Perhaps what is most striking about this season is that we are now at the absolute peak of hurricane season, and there is simply nothing happening. Although the Atlantic season begins on … Continue reading →
Plenty. I don’t usually report on the ups and downs of the military events in Ukraine, nor do I make prognostications except for making one – which still stands – that this will go on for quite a while longer … Continue reading →
Commenter “stan” says, regarding how the left has been undermining our liberties and using lawfare to silence the opposition they label as the enemy, “What’s it going to take for good people to see what is happening in plain sight?” … Continue reading →
There’s so much we don’t know about the past. But it’s also amazing how much we do know about the past:
Continue reading →I first heard the song “Little Girl Blue” when I was in high school, sung by Nina Simone. My high school boyfriend introduced me to her records, and I was immediately taken with her unique musical style. No one sounded … Continue reading →
They want to frighten people into never, never ever working for Trump again. Those MAGA Republicans are, of course, the enemy out to destroy America, and they deserve everything they might get – after all, Biden said so in his … Continue reading →
Tomorrow is 9/11. Twenty-one years is a long long time, and a lot has happened since then to America and to the world. And yet 9/11 still marks a kind of turning point. Never such innocence again, after 9/11. Here’s … Continue reading →
This is from 1940, when the dial telephone was introduced. It seems not only from another time, but from another planet. Here’s the part where a woman goes on and on explaining much more than you ever needed to know … Continue reading →
…visiting family and friends. Yesterday was a long journey, and the easiest part was the plane ride. But the bus that takes me to the airport had changed one of its policies unexpectedly. The airport was unusually crowded and I … Continue reading →
(1) New British PM Elizabeth (there’s that name again!) Truss has lifted the fracking ban. That certainly seems reasonable. But it’s not all that common for leaders to do something reasonable, is it? The end of the fracking moratorium is … Continue reading →