Open thread 6/10/22
This music was fun in 1961: He was still having fun in 2018 at the age 79, and I hear he’s about to go on tour now at 82: Some background:
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Wapo viper Felicia Sonmez gets the boot
(Is that a mixed metaphor? Can a viper get the boot?) You can be totally forgiven if you haven’t followed the woker-than-woke shenanigans of victim-card-playing Felicia Sonmez of the WaPo. I can’t say that it’s been number one on my … Continue reading →
More on what the California primaries reveal
Looking at some of the other results in Tuesday’s California primaries, there appears to be a law-and-order trend – at least, as California would define law and order these days. Read this on Orange County DA Todd Spitzer. Also this … Continue reading →
How to condemn and not condemn an attempt on the life of a SCOTUS justice
I was curious what the White House or Joe Biden had to say about the attempt on Kavanaugh’s life. All I could find was this: White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement provided to Fox News … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/9/22
Roundup
(1) I wrote briefly last night about the successful recall of San Francisco’s DA Chesa Boudin, and I’ve written about him previously as well. I just want to add that I first realized there was a good chance that the … Continue reading →
Senator Stabenow is in love with her car
Senator Stabenow of Michigan bragged about her electric car: “I just have to say just on the issue of that at gas prices; after waiting for a long time to have enough chips in this country to finally get my … Continue reading →
The banality of Arendt’s “banality of evil”
Several commenters have called my attention to the fact that there’s a new Israeli film about Adolf Eichmann. It’s entitled ““The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes,” and it features interviews in which he describes how much he knew about … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/8/22
It doesn’t really answer the question, but it’s still interesting:
Continue reading →Chesa, we hardly knew ya
Buh-bye Chesa, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. George Soros could buy your way in, but he couldn’t keep you there – not even in bluer-than-blue San Francisco. It’ll be Dahle against Newsom for the … Continue reading →
Caroline Glick on lawfare against Trump and against Netanyahu
Well worth reading.
Continue reading →The story told by the third teacher under siege at Robb Elementary, Arnulfo Reyes
We hadn’t heard of his existence before, but now it emerges that there was a third teacher in one of the two rooms under siege at Robb Elementary, Arnulfo Reyes, and he survived although seriously wounded and still in the … Continue reading →