Afghanistan leave-taking
Sunday is usually my day off, but there’s so much Afghanistan news I thought I’d do a very short post on the subject. I expect to have more to say later, and at any rate the fog of war is … Continue reading →
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On pop music fame, families, fashion, and too much fame: the Bee Gees
Regular readers here know about my recent rediscovery of the Bee Gees, and my new fascination with them. Many of you find this quite boring; others are interested. I am so surprised myself by the experience that I keep trying … Continue reading →
Is the Biden administration worse than you expected?
I was reading a set of comments somewhere at a blog on the right where a lot of people were saying this administration is worse than they had expected. The topic at hand was the incompetence of the withdrawal from … Continue reading →
A couple of further points about the Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper confrontation in Central Park last year
I already wrote about the topic yesterday – and strongly suggested that you listen to this podcast about it. The discussion in the ensuing thread raised a bunch of interesting questions that I wanted to address, so here’s one more … Continue reading →
Exculpatory evidence is being hidden from those arrested for January 6th activities
The legal machinations illustrative of the prosecution of many of the January 6th defendants is demonstrated in the case of Cuoy Giffin. For Giffin, those actions include the government’s charging him although he never entered the Capitol at all and … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/14/21
It was a different world, wasn’t it?
Continue reading →The deeper story of the confrontation between the “Central Park Karen” and birdwatcher Christian Cooper
I don’t usually recommend long podcasts, but I listened to this one last night and found it extraordinary and well worth a hearing. It’s a detailed exploration of what happened last year in a story that went viral. You probably … Continue reading →
Remember that Indian study about the viral loads of vaccinated people?
It’s been revised: Ravindra Gupta, the director of the team at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases that conducted the study, confirmed to The Fact Checker that the article had been initially rejected during peer review because … Continue reading →
Afghanistan: the end game
Afghanistan has long been a terrible place to go to war, as Kipling knew: When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out … Continue reading →
Open thread 8/13/21
Ballot adjudication in Fulton County, 2020
The November 2020 election seems like it took place a very long time ago. Slowly, ever so slowly, more of the details are emerging about how absentee ballots fared. We may never know whether or not the problems they raised … Continue reading →
At least it may be the case that Hunter Biden is now immune to blackmail
After all, the myriad awful things we’ve learned about him so far don’t seem to have made a particle of difference. But this is still disturbing – or would be, in a world where dissipation like that still offended the … Continue reading →