[UPDATES below; scroll down.] Polls are starting to close, and so here’s the thread for the results. I haven’t turned on my TV yet. I’ll wait a bit. UPDATE 9:00 PM I find that I’m still very reluctant to turn … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP: I’m bumping this post up to the top for now, so please scroll down to see the newer posts. After the polls close in the east and returns begin, I’ll be starting a new Election 2018 thread.] It’s … Continue reading →
Since this is a day of mostly waiting, I thought I’d remind everyone that the holidays are coming. If you use Amazon for your gift-giving, please order by clicking through the portal on this blog. Thanks so much!
Continue reading →Not exactly, but sort of: …[T]he American electorate has separated into two increasingly homogenous political tribes. As Lilliana Mason points out in Uncivil Agreement, “partisanship can now be thought of as a mega-identity.” The Republican mega-identity is religious, middle-class, rural, … Continue reading →
No, not really. I’ve never beaten the living crap out of anyone, much less a website. I confess that, although as a child I certainly hit some people back when they hit me, I did zero damage and am in … Continue reading →
I’ve written before about the fact that I hate coffee. So this National Geographic article, which reports that scientists have said that whether we like coffee or have trouble with it is at least partly genetic, is of interest. Of … Continue reading →
…and I have no hesitation in saying I’m nervous. I also freely admit I have no idea what will happen, particularly in terms of the House. And it’s not just me; no one knows. Some prognosticators will be right in … Continue reading →
This is a very disturbing story: From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to the secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources on the … Continue reading →
An article at Sarah Hoyt’s site by Bill Reader has some answers. Read the whole thing; the basic answer is “the Central American Left,” but here are some details that might especially interest you: …Barolo Fuentes, a Honduran socialist who … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see Part I here.] I ended Part I in the following way: …accusing Soros of being a “formenter of social dissent” and an “agitator funding and masterminding protest” is simply the truth about Soros. If it’s the truth, … Continue reading →
Samuel Abrams is a Sarah Lawrence professor who has had the audacity to write about the lack of intellectual diversity among faculty and administrators on today’s college campuses, and of course the SJWs don’t like it and think he should … Continue reading →
These days, it’s likely to be four letters: American names are shrinking. The two most popular names in the US for baby boys in 2017 were Liam and Noah; for girls, Emma and Ava were two of the three most … Continue reading →