The answer seems to be “a great many”: On Monday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools saw a tremendous number of absences, nearly 20% of students, shortly after ICE showed up in town and illegal migrant communities became afraid of going out in public. … Continue reading →
You may have read that Tucker Carlson recently criticized Dietrich Bonhoeffer in an odd sort of way. Here’s the clip, so you can understand what it’s about: I then came across this – which takes it a bit further, shall … Continue reading →
I have a whole menagerie of pet peeves, and here’s one of them. Way too many websites push some action or other with a choice to do it or not do it. Sounds reasonable and inoffensive, right? And it is, … Continue reading →
By the roadside:
Continue reading →In this post I’ll be presenting the “Two Minutes Hate” excerpt from Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. I think the template for the passage’s physical description of Goldstein (the object of the Hate) may have been Trotsky, at least in part. Here’s … Continue reading →
And it’s a serious one; there’s been talk of possibly having to evacuate Tehran. So cloud-seeding was begun – and then came floods: Rainfall caused floods in parts of western Iran on Monday, after months of drought led to the … Continue reading →
From Robert Graboyes: If you and I have lunch together, I would be DELIGHTED to discuss history, science, art, music, architecture, economics, aviation, archaeology, travel, pets, cinema, television, numismatics, literature, sports, ethics, food, genetics, fashion, gardening, weather, family, transportation, agriculture, … Continue reading →
(1) Michelle Obama says black people don’t swim because white people demand that black people not wear natural hairdos. Or something like that – you can figure it out, if you care to. Seems to me her statement manages to … Continue reading →
When was the last time the Security Council voted unanimously on anything in the Middle East involving Israel? In this case, Russia and China abstained – but still, the whole thing makes me suspicious. Here’s the news: The resolution implements … Continue reading →
Maybe I’ll have a week of dog posts for the open threads. Or maybe not:
Continue reading →Trump has called on the GOP to vote for the release of all the Epstein files, and get down to touting their accomplishments and achieving more for the American people. One can conclude from this that such a release would … Continue reading →