Okay, I admit it. I must be a bad bad person, because I find this Trump tweet very funny: WELCOME BACK JOE! pic.twitter.com/b2NbBSX3sx — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2019 And yet I’m not supposed to find it funny. … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter Ted Clayton.] Wednesday I wrote this post about a New Yorker article on a huge fossil find that purports to be evidence of the asteroid strike that caused widespread geological perturbations that swiftly killed the dinosaurs and … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →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 →
…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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
…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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →