You can discuss it here. Afterwards: As expected, Trump’s speech was the usual recitation of accomplishments during his tenure, which are many. Also as expected (by the right, anyway), he didn’t mention impeachment. As usual, there were a bunch of … Continue reading →
Simone de Beauvoir and her even-more-famous lover Jean-Paul Sartre, darlings of feminists and the left, were loathsome characters in their personal lives as well in their politics, despite the heroic and self-aggrandizing legends they took great pains to establish. When … Continue reading →
The National Association of Scholars is, in its own words: …a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to reform higher education. We uphold the standards of a liberal arts education that fosters intellectual freedom, searches for the truth, and promotes virtuous … Continue reading →
It’s the perfect situation for the incubation of conspiracies. First, we have a process that few people understand in the first place: the Iowa caucuses. Next, we have a contentious race, many candidates (adding to the complexity), and a residue … Continue reading →
There’s a delay, and rumor has it that it’s the result of an app glitch. Makes you want to race out and have all voting computerized, doesn’t it?
Continue reading →The nomination? The presidency? Many Democrats seem to be frightened in a way similar to how a lot of Republicans felt during the 2016 campaign when Trump’s star was rising. The Democrats’ main fear is that Sanders cannot win against … Continue reading →
I cared even less about this year’s Superbowl than I usually do – and since I usually don’t care, that means I didn’t bother to turn on the TV. But I know many people do care, so here’s a thread … Continue reading →
But it’s only the day after. And for the occasion, a friend sent me a link to this clever new ad: If you want to find some of my previous paeans to the movie “Groundhog Day,” please see these.
Continue reading →Commenter “AesopFan” had this to say about a very short passage within the “Agon” pas de deux we discussed a while ago: There is a small section that I noticed has different movements in the two samples. The woman, in … Continue reading →
…is one of the more bizarre of the Democrats’ criticisms of the goings-on in the Senate, if you go by the laws of logic. Impeachment trials use the word “trial” as a sort of shorthand for some sort of legal … Continue reading →
Doris Lessing was a well-known writer who died in 2013 after a very long life and many prizes, including a Nobel. I confess that I’ve never read a thing she wrote, although I tried a few times. It just didn’t … Continue reading →
On MSNBC, for example: That was apparently today. I would like to find the segment that followed, but in a quick search I haven’t been able to do so. However, it’s not hard to imagine how it would go, and … Continue reading →