For the last week or so I’ve been periodically entertaining myself by journeying back in time through the popular music of my earlier days (and they’re all earlier days, aren’t they?). It’s a good distraction from the angst of contemplating … Continue reading →
Quite a few people have recommended this article, and although I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I thought I’d spotlight it here so you can discuss it in this thread. The intro: This report assesses the fairness … Continue reading →
If you have a mordant sense of humor, looking back at this piece makes for amusing reading – both for the fulsome fawning of its author Jeff Stein at Vox, and for the delicious irony of certain claims (that Trump’s … Continue reading →
We sometimes think – or used to think – of professors and/or philosophers and/or intellectuals as people living in ivory towers, and that most of their battles are over arcane matters that matter not all that much to the rest … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: A whole bunch of readers sent me links to this.] Heather Mac Donald is a writer I admire who knows a lot about the anti-racist movement as it relates to policing. Now she tackles the subject of how … Continue reading →
From Sarah Hoyt, on the failure of the courts to hear any evidence in the election fraud cases: You know what could have fixed it? The courts taking the cases and allowing for an examination of the evidence. The fact … Continue reading →
I think this is taking fatherly devotion a mite far: President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” where he told the comedian that he has “great confidence” in his son Hunter. If that were … Continue reading →
At Red State, streiff writes the following. It concerns the story going around that Justice Roberts pressured the conservative justices not to take up the Texas case, screaming in a meeting among the nine justices that, “I don’t give an … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson writes: Joe Biden will be our next president. But he will face Nemesis in a way that few other presidents have ever encountered the cruel Greek god… A President Biden cannot avoid the press forever. He will … Continue reading →
…I should be getting up to speed pretty soon. Winter has arrived with a vengeance – big big snowstorm here and in much of New England!
Continue reading →[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 →
I imagine it will be a few months before I have the chance to get a COVID vaccine. I’m oldish but not mega-old, I’m not a health care professional, and I’m going to assume that places me in a group … Continue reading →