Sarah Hoyt explains…
…about the bubblegum pig and why telling lies is not a good idea. She also explains what it’s like to be a person born to write fiction, which reminds me once again of one reason I wasn’t all that good … Continue reading →
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Who “won” the debate?
You can see a lot of commentary on the question of who won the first debate. I’m not going to even try to chime in my answer, and not just because I didn’t watch it. It’s because I not only … Continue reading →
Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer…
…threatens to sue Joe Biden for defamation. As well he should. Have you noticed how Democrats seem to love unjustly smearing white teenaged boys these days? Just ask Nick Sandmann. The thing that makes me most angry about this phenomenon … Continue reading →
Excellent George Parry interview on the death of George Floyd
Fairly succinct and very clear:
Continue reading →The decline
I had trouble sleeping last night. My mind kept turning over the debate – a debate I didn’t watch, but read enough about to know I was right to not watch it. And even unwatched, it disturbed my sleep. That’s … Continue reading →
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.
That is what I think of presidential debates. I have never understood why we hold them or pay attention to them. They are a form of strange theater, having little to nothing to do with the business of being a … Continue reading →
Debate thread
Here’s a thread for tonight’s debate. Not sure if I’ll watch or for how long, because (as I’ve said many times) debates make me very, very tense. And of course, tonight’s debate has the potential for extreme tension – as … Continue reading →
Please watch this great WalkAway video
Of all the WalkAway videos I’ve ever seen – and I’ve seen many – I believe that this is the best. Actually, it’s the best video I’ve seen on the process of political change in general. It’s long, and I … Continue reading →
What is wrong…
…with this woman? And why does Stanford Law School tolerate her? It used to be that no professor would air this sort of language or these sorts of thoughts in public. There was some notion of dignity to uphold. Now … Continue reading →
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your earpieces
Reports are that although several days ago the Biden camp had agreed to a Trump request for a pre-debate check to make sure no one was wearing an earpiece, today they rescinded that agreement. Biden’s people were also were demanding … Continue reading →
On Trump’s taxes
This. And this. As well as this.
Continue reading →On that “Antiracism” authority, Ibram X. Kendi, who had this to say in response to Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to SCOTUS
Kendi is molding young minds at Boston University as the recently-appointed head of the Center for Anti-Racist Research. He’s a popular author who’s ridden the anti-racism wave as it has been building over the last few years. Now he weighs … Continue reading →