COVID in India
COVID is on the rise in India, and our MSM is in full court press to drive panic about it. But what is really going on in that country? I happened to have been at someone else’s house yesterday and … Continue reading →
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Open thread 5/3/21
Who was “Blinded By the Light”?
Guess who wrote it? It was his first single, and it didn’t do well: The cover is better and extremely different, but it’s the same old song (with a different meaning since you’ve been gone). And no, they’re not wrapped … Continue reading →
Target’s CEO Brian Cornell on George Floyd
Here’s what Cornell had to say: Target CEO Brian Cornell has been particularly outspoken about the murder of George Floyd last year by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of the crime last week. “It happened only … Continue reading →
The FBI’s war on the right
As Ace writes: The US government has finally found an enemy it can defeat in war: American citizens. Starting quite a few years ago, federal agencies and the left were intent on downplaying terrorism on the left as well as … Continue reading →
Mayday! Mayday!
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.] Today is Mayday. As a child I was confused by the wildly differing associations the word conjures up. It’s a distress signal, for example, apparently derived from the French for “come … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/1/21
Steve Goodman was certainly ahead of his time. This song was written in 1979, over 40 years ago, and describes the pre-Disneyfied Times Square that I remember. It was a rough place. This song would probably get him into big … Continue reading →
Biden restricting travel from India
See this. But it’s okay when Democrats do it, right?
Continue reading →The job of police
This comment from “boatbuilder” is brief and spot-on: We ask men to take on the harsh and dangerous business of policing criminals, and demand that nothing unpleasant happens. We don’t want anything unpleasant to happen at their hands, that is. … Continue reading →
Biden the moderate healer says something-or-other about detention centers and ICE
First let me say that nothing that comes out of Biden’s mouth would surprise me. And let me also say that I see no reason to believe everything or anything that comes out of his mouth. But one thing I … Continue reading →
Where has all the flu gone?
First, the statistics: Since the novel coronavirus began its global spread, influenza cases reported to the World Health Organization have dropped to minuscule levels. The reason, epidemiologists think, is that the public health measures taken to keep the coronavirus from … Continue reading →