Nancy Pelosi says [emphasis mine]: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) voiced her support on Thursday for lowering the federal voting age to 16, telling reporters during a press conference that doing so would be a boon to voter engagement in … Continue reading →
What’s more, I don’t think I’ve ever personally known anyone who does. Unlike this professor, who seems to think too many people (that is, too many women in particular) say “sorry” far too often. And she’s definitely not talking about … Continue reading →
Ever since the news of the New Zealand mosque killings, I’ve been wondering how the killer was stopped and captured. Various rumors have gone around, and I suppose that this story might be just another one, but it seems pretty … Continue reading →
The wreckage of the doomed Ethiopian flight of a Boeing 737 Max is starting to tell the tale: A screwlike device found in the wreckage of the Boeing 737 Max 8 that crashed last Sunday in Ethiopia indicates the plane … Continue reading →
I’ve noticed—around the blogosphere in general as well as on some comments at yesterday’s thread about the twelve Republican senators who voted to block Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border—that quite a few people on the right … Continue reading →
Congress tried to block Trump’s emergency declaration: The Senate passed a resolution Thursday to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, with 12 Republicans joining all the Democrats to deliver a rare bipartisan rebuke of … Continue reading →
A terrorist mass murderer went on a shooting spree in two New Zealand mosques, killing 49 people. He left a lengthy manifesto, and even livestreamed the attack. This event is extremely terrible in human terms. But in terms of firearms … Continue reading →
I was having connectivity problems this afternoon. Now I’m back online. [NOTE: The quote in the title is from this.]
Continue reading →The blog is having what I think are some cache problems. This is a test post. Seems to be working now. Question: if you usually access the blog from a phone or pad, did the McCarthy post and quantum post … Continue reading →
I agree with McCarthy that this should make everyone afraid. But it doesn’t. Some are applauding. Well, as the New York Times notes, the New York state charges filed Wednesday are based on bank loans that were part of the … Continue reading →
I’m not entirely sure that I understand this, but I’m entirely sure that it’s interesting: Taking quantum mechanics seriously predicts a unique, single quantum reality underlying the multiverse. The homogeneity and the tiny temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, … Continue reading →
When I read about the college entrance bribe scandal, the first question that came to my mind was what did these parents think was going to happen when their kids got into a school for which they were neither prepared … Continue reading →