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 →
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 →
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 →
Seems to me there’s a reason that most of these are less common:
Continue reading →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 →
…and probably will be posting again in late afternoon or early evening.
Continue reading →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 →
Otto von Bismarck certainly had a way with words. For example: “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.” (I’d heard that one … Continue reading →
Okay, so the chicken is being cued by a red laser. The bird nevertheless seems to anticipate a few of the higher notes, and the execution is impressive. And then there’s the eating of the flower stems at the end; … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here. Part V can be found here.] At the end of Part V, I’d had my surgery … Continue reading →
During the Trump administration, he was often blocked by federal judges issuing national injunctions on things he was attempting to do. Now the shoe is on the other foot: A Louisiana federal judge blocked the Biden administration on Friday from … Continue reading →
This is tremendously encouraging: The drug, called AZD1236 and developed by the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, can reduce the “secondary damage” generated by the body’s response to spinal cord injury, they said in an article published Friday by the journal Clinical … Continue reading →