[NOTE: This is a slightly revised repeat of a previous post – and today’s attempt to get away from politics.] When I was in junior high school, there was a large poster of the Periodic Table of the Elements that … Continue reading →
…take part in this event at Legal Insurrection tomorrow evening at 8 Eastern Time.
Continue reading →Recommended, especially the first half hour or so:
Continue reading →Last night I was watching a YouTube video by Bret Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying. Weinstein is the guy who defied the Evergreen crowd a while back. He’s on the left but with a strong libertarian streak. One thing … Continue reading →
The NY Times and the left (but I repeat myself) would have you believe that America’s founding principle of the most basic kind was slavery, and that all along slavery and racism have been the driving forces behind the US. … 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 eleven years since commenter FredHJr died suddenly and tragically. As time passes, the number of readers here who … Continue reading →
That is the question – or at least, one of the questions. I know that some of you – maybe most of you – are feeling some despair right now. Maybe a lot of despair. What we’ve been seeing – … Continue reading →
What’s the war on statues about? It’s a case of “venting,” of course, in the emotional sense. But it’s much much more than that. The pulling down and/or defacing of statues is not some emotional spur-of-the-moment impulse, although I suppose … Continue reading →
In September of 2018 I wrote a post that began like this: It’s no accident that the Furies were women: “According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the … Continue reading →
From a speech Reverend Martin Luther King delivered at DePauw University in September of 1960: Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Kate.”] As I wrote yesterday, the Flynn framing was their “insurance policy.”
Continue reading →We certainly need them. Perhaps there are too many choices for one to have really caught on, because forums like Twitter need to reach a critical mass to work well. Twitter was the first to come up with the format, … Continue reading →