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Jury finds Kim Potter guilty on all counts in “Taser taser taser” trial
My first thought on reading about this verdict was I guess Minnesotans don’t want to have any police officers left. Because I don’t understand why any person would run the risk of becoming a police officer in such an anti-officer … Continue reading →
Joan Didion dies at 87
RIP. Didion specialized in the non-fiction essay, one of my favorite genres. I read her 1968 work Slouching Towards Bethlehem (title taken from Yeats’ wonderful poem “The Second Coming”) a couple of years after it came out and admired it … Continue reading →
Lebkuchen time!
[NOTE: Regulars here may remember that most years I put up a family Christmas recipe. And here it is again.] This recipe was brought over from Germany sometime in the mid-1800s, and was my favorite of all the wonderful treats … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/23/21
Chile: As it will be in the future…
…it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back … Continue reading →
More on the January 6th mystery men
I’ve written quite a few previous posts on the idea that government-agent-generated entrapment may have been a big part of the January 6th proceedings. Much of the evidence for this theory is that there are quite a few men who … Continue reading →
This makes me a bit uneasy, I must say
Science marches on: A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Australia and the U.K. has taught a small mass of human brain cells to play the video game Pong… The mass, which the researchers call a cyborg, was … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/22/21
Playing the kazoo without a kazoo. These guys were geniuses:
Continue reading →California taxation is killing the legal pot industry
Not really a surprise, is it?: Leading California cannabis companies warned Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday that the state’s legal industry was on the verge of collapse and needed immediate tax cuts and a rapid expansion of retail outlets to … Continue reading →
Biden and COVID
A lot of things puzzle me, and one of the big ones – although I should know better than to be surprised by it – is why anyone would have believed candidate Joe Biden when he said, in October of … Continue reading →