Open thread 5/21/21
The bird’s not a fan of low-flow showers:
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The official Capitol Police letter that wasn’t
It appears rather Ratheresque. You probably remember Rathergate, the fake letter about Bush and his National Guard service that became a big big story prior to the 2004 election. Somehow, despite everything, those who accepted the letter at face value … Continue reading →
Theft in California: Annals of completely predictable logical consequences
How astounding – if you eliminate penalties for certain crimes, you will get more of those crimes. And there will be consequences to that, as well: By a margin of 60 to 40 percent, the idiots of California basically legalized … Continue reading →
Biden can’t even steal a joke right
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”.] Turns out that Joe Biden’s Coast Guard joke that fell flat wasn’t even originally his, it was Reagan’s. Reagan delivered it a whole lot better, and without the insults: There are many astounding things about the … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/20/21
I can’t resist posting another clip from the movie “Midnight Run”:
Continue reading →Anti-Jewish attacks on the rise
Well, of course. See this. And this: Israel’s fight against Hamas has again reached American shores. While cities all over Europe continue to report alarming spikes in physical attacks against Jews —citizen broadcasts via the Twitterverse show the same sort … Continue reading →
Anything Biden does is perfectly okay with the press
Like for example this: Imagine if Donald Trump had jokingly threatened to murder journalists standing in front of him. They probably wouldn’t have laughed. Yet that’s what Joe Biden did on Tuesday and the assembled reporters just chuckled at the … Continue reading →
What’s going on these days in Pennsylvania voting?
Commenter “Steph” writes: There were two ballot questions in yesterday’s election [in] PA that would limit the emergency powers of the Governor. Very much a slam dunk to vote YES on both of these, especially in a state where Wolf … Continue reading →
RIP Charles Grodin
Actor Charles Grodin died yesterday at the age of 86. He was fabulous in one of my favorite movies of all time, “Midnight Run.” In the movie, Grodin played an accountant who had embezzled money from a Chicago mobster, and … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/19/21
Roundup
(1) A summary of the AP’s denial about its offices being housed in the same building as Hamas. (2) So, has the teacher’s union been running the CDC? Apparently. (3) Speaking of the CDC, Glenn Greenwald makes a good point … Continue reading →
Leftist influence in the military
We started hearing reports during the Obama years of a switchover in terms of ideology in the military. Here’s an article about it (written some years later, but I recall hearing about it at the time, too): …[T]he Army that … Continue reading →