Open thread 8/22/22
This guy not only has a gift for languages – lots of languages – he also has a gift for making friends:
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You want range? I’ll give you range– and autotune?
All parts are done by Foust: However – I hear autotune. Do you? It doesn’t take away from Foust’s range if autotune is used – the range is real – but to me there’s something not right about the sound … Continue reading →
Those Nazi analogies
Yesterday there was a discussion in the comments about making any analogies to Nazism. Commenter “M J R” had this to say, for example: I would agree with Stone [that the FBI has become Biden’s Gestapo], except I would not … Continue reading →
Why these petitions fail: the Gascon recall and the Michigan Republican primary
You may recall that in the Michigan governorship primary, five of the GOP primary contenders – including the frontrunners – were disqualified because of faulty petition signatures. I wrote a previous post about it in June, and I had planned … Continue reading →
Realclearinvestigations ties it all together: the Russiagate agents and the MAL search agents are one and the same
Here’s a summary of the links between the Russiagate crowd and the MAL search crowd. An excerpt: The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/20/22
Real? Fake? But definitely weird. [Hat tip: AesopFan.]
Continue reading →And let’s not forget the Iran deal
The Biden administration certainly hasn’t forgotten [emphasis mine]: Admittedly, the [Iranian] regime has more than once pumped the brakes on nuclear diplomacy. This intransigence signaled that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, may not have ever wanted an … Continue reading →
Rasmussen poll on attitudes towards the FBI
If you’re still interested in polls and think they have any validity at all, here’s a recent one about attitudes towards the FBI. I think the astounding thing is that so many people still do have a favorable view of … Continue reading →
The Webb: more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
The eagerly-awaited Webb photographs present a conundrum concerning a large and seemingly rather “settled” question in cosmology, the Big Bang. That article is by physicist Eric J. Lerner, who already was on record as a Big Bang doubter (does that … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/19/22
Announcement
I’m still doing some work on the website that should continue for the next couple of weeks. I hope to manage it and make some technical improvements without any disruption of the blog while it’s happening. But if for some … Continue reading →
The drumming-up of hatred against Republicans is escalating
The rhetoric from the left is becoming ever more dangerous and inflammatory. And it’s the left that says “words are violence” – if so, what shall we call this?: Gen. Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and NSA, … Continue reading →