What are you doing New Year’s Eve?
[BUMPED UP – scroll down for later posts] I don’t usually do much of anything on New Year’s Eve, although I tend to always try to watch the ball go down on TV. Staying up late is no problem for … Continue reading →
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New York’s get out of jail free card
De Blasio’s New York is bending over backward to be kind to criminal suspects: Brooklyn trouble magnet who dodged bail in an anti-Semitic assault over the weekend — only to be busted a day later in another alleged attack — … Continue reading →
Putting Trump in larger perspective
Those who hate Trump and consider him an illegitimate president and believe he won the election by trickery (or would like you to believe he won by trickery) or by fluke are ignoring this point: The election of President Donald … Continue reading →
Biden’s comment that he’d refuse to comply with a Congressional subpoena to testify in an impeachment trial…
…is upsetting even the left, because it highlights the lameness of their “obstructing Congress” charge against Trump. If I were a Democrat, the possibility that Biden might be the nominee would fill me with anxiety. He keeps putting his foot … Continue reading →
Violence against Orthodox Jews: who are the perps?
The recent increase in anti-Semitic attacks in cities and suburbs in New York and New Jersey perplex the left because it’s hard for them to place in the correct category. Hard, but certainly not impossible – where there’s a will … Continue reading →
The tardigrade seems to be here to stay
Before last night, I had never heard of the creature known as a tardigrade. But once I came across it, I still could hardly believe it existed. I think you can see why just by looking at it: Yes, that … Continue reading →
Housing the homeless: “everyone deserves a granite countertop”
Much of what is in this article is what many of us have suspected anyway: that homelessness in the US is predominantly an addiction and/or a mental illness problem. Keep in mind when you read the following that “homelessness experts … Continue reading →
Lawfare: admitting you were wrong
The Horowitz Report dealt a blow to Lawfare: …[T]he ‘Lawfare’ blog…[is] a site that’s placed itself at the center of the operation to legitimize and push Trump-Russia conspiracy theories throughout the Trump presidency. Their specialty has been to claim the … Continue reading →
I’m surprised this critique of Rachel Maddow appeared in the WaPo
From the opinion article: The ubiquity of Horowitz’s debunking passages suggests that he wanted the public to come away with the impression that the dossier was a flabby, hasty, precipitous, conclusory charade of a document. Viewers of certain MSNBC fare … Continue reading →
Sneaky changes: Thomas’ English muffins
When I was a child, Thomas’ English muffins were a staple of my breakfast. They had crisp nooks and crannies into which butter loved to slide, and they were just the right combination of textures of soft and hard. I … Continue reading →
Has anyone seen the movie “Richard Jewell”?
Feel free to discuss it here. I don’t go to the movies much, but I may go to see this one. Is it as good as reported?
Continue reading →Five-year-old calls 911
I’m not sure exactly what to say about this little girl. I find her very endearing. She’s remarkably composed. She’s remarkably mature. And she’s remarkably concerned with what she wears:
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