I have to gird my loins (metaphorically speaking) to look at the news these days. It’s hard to know what to say about so much of it, other than that it feels like a looking-glass world in which the Red … Continue reading →
It sounds likely to me.
Continue reading →Colorado was a US trailblazer in the legalization of marijuana. It was legalized there for medical use in 2009, and for recreational use in 2014. That means that there’s quite a bit of data now about the results in that … Continue reading →
Free speech has always been a hard sell. It goes against the human grain to a certain extent. People often feel a powerful desire to silence those whom they define as opponents, bullies, liars, or anyone else whose speech they … Continue reading →
Some perspective from lawyers Frei and Barnes:
Continue reading →[NOTE: The following is a somewhat revised version of a post that has appeared previously on this blog.] Unbelievable that it’s been twelve years since commenter FredHJr died suddenly and tragically. As time passes, the number of readers here who … Continue reading →
When Biden was first inaugurated as president I recall a lot of speculation on how long he would last in the job. Many people predicted that by now he’d be gone, declared incompetent or ill or incapacitated in some way, … Continue reading →
There’s a sudden flurry of news articles about a “Dragon Man” skull. Supposedly from a possible archaic human species, the skull has an odd and perhaps suspect provenance: Dragon Man (Homo longi) is an extinct species of archaic human identified … Continue reading →
Love can be mysterious: My theory is that when the goose was young it imprinted on a person resembling this woman. Later, someone dumped it at the lake.
Continue reading →I’ve periodically searched and searched for a video of this particular dance by this particular dancer, and I’ve finally found it. Blurry though it may be, it captures at least some of the qualities of the mesmerizing, uniquely beautiful and … Continue reading →