Pretty good jobs report
Here.
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Remember George Papadopoulos? Touted as the reason the whole Russiagate thing started?
It’s easy to get lost in Russiagate minutiae, and perhaps that’s part of the plan. For example, George Papadopoulos, remember him? Perhaps not. Let me refresh your memory (and mine): When the special counsel was appointed by Rod Rosenstein in … Continue reading →
Dan Davies was an accident waiting to happen…
…and unfortunately for both Davies and Illinois State Trooper Gerald Ellis, that accident did in fact happen, and both are now dead. It is indeed tragic, as well as a failure of the justice system: …[O]fficials of the Illinois Secretary … Continue reading →
Where would the MSM be without shaky and suspect speculations?
Before the findings of the Mueller report were released, the MSM’s meat and potatoes had been speculating about its content for years. The speculation just about always went in one direction only: it would sink Trump. This was an audience-getter … Continue reading →
The word bun can have many meanings
I saw this link at Instapundit: Man Buns: Proof Positive That Western Civilization Is Doomed. I thought it meant buns in the old-fashioned sense of butt. I imagined there must be some new men’s fashion that emphasized said area in … Continue reading →
Solitary imaginings
Hope you never need this information: how to survive solitary confinement. It seems to come down to the ability to focus imagination on positives, what is called intentional imagination rather than uncontrolled imagination: Mental imagery can supplement perceptual input—but it … Continue reading →
Venezuela is a train wreck…
…and as a result, South America has its own refugee problem: On one end, these countries are trying to pressure [President] Maduro now to step down, because they know that this migrant crisis is going to get even worse the … Continue reading →
The dying of the dinosaurs
In the comments to yesterday’s post about climate change, a lot of people mentioned this article that appeared in The New Yorker and caused a big sensation. I had already read the article and found it to be absorbing. It … Continue reading →
A reminder of how much the climate has changed in the past
It’s really odd that this article was published in The New Yorker, because although it’s not about the current AGW climate change controversy it certainly dwells on the wild swings that have occurred to earth’s climate in the past. Worth … Continue reading →
Turkey’s Erdogan and the democracy train
I guess Turkey’s Erdogan and his party didn’t do enough to fix the elections in Turkey this time, and must have underestimated the strength of his opponents, because the election didn’t go as he’d hoped. The NY Times calls it … Continue reading →
No, Biden’s not like Franken
So now it’s been decreed by someone or other on the left that it’s time for the person who’s already been known for years on the right as “Creepy Uncle Joe” Biden to be accused of inappropriate touching: Amy Lappos, … Continue reading →
Rahm Emanuel blames Trump for the Smollett case, which prompts Al Sharpton to blame Trump for the Tawana Brawley case
When the Smollett case was settled with hardly a wrist-slap, Rahm Emanuel was spitting mad. But after a couple of days he thought better of his tirade and reverted to what Democrats so love to do and blamed Trump, the … Continue reading →