The Red Sox…
…are going to the World Series. I’m so old I remember when baseball players didn’t wear beards.
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The caravan moves on: from illegal immigration to the Rubaiyat
I’m not at all sure the Democrats are pleased about the timing of this: More Honduran migrants tried to join a caravan of several thousand trekking through Guatemala on Wednesday, defying calls by authorities not to make the journey after … Continue reading →
Kavanaugh wasn’t merely borked
I’ve seen a lot of pundits referring to what happened to Kavanaugh as his having been borked. But that’s not entirely correct. In the earlier part of the hearings, he was indeed borked. In other words, his judicial record was … Continue reading →
The ultimate non-PC anthem for Elizabeth Warren
I’m surprised this is even allowed on YouTube these days. I learned it as a little girl: This isn’t the version I learned, but here you have the visuals:
Continue reading →Twitter has no problem…
…with Farrakhan comparing Jews to termites. After all, he’s not on the right, so Twitter’s hate speech rules are applied to him more liberally than they are to those on the right.
Continue reading →Is it a case of “give them enough rope”?
Suddenly, a lot of Democratic candidates are getting really really stupid. Now, you might say they’ve been stupid for a long time. But I don’t mean “stupid” as in “thinking they’ll never run out of other people’s money,” or something … Continue reading →
Apparently they killed off Roseanne
The character, that is, in the series that used to bear her name. The plot line has her dying from an opioid overdose, in both a nod to a current US problem and an act of vengeance against the series’ … Continue reading →
Roger L. Simon on the Khashoggi incident
I’m in agreement with Roger Simon’s take. No one is a good guy here, and it’s best to go slow.
Continue reading →The contradictions in leftist identity politics
The seeming stupidity of Elizabeth Warren claiming Native American status on the basis of her paltry DNA results points to some deep problems in the leftist identity politics narrative. It goes something like this: (1) For some identities, leftism dictates … Continue reading →
YouTube goes down all over the world…
…and at first I think it’s just my site, so I’m actually relieved to find out it’s global. And now it’s fixed. The internet has become extremely sophisticated and ridiculously complex. No matter how many safeguards are built into it, … Continue reading →
From Melania to Nijinsky in several easy steps
Most people couldn’t pull off this fashion statement that Melania Trump made during her recent trip to Egypt. For instance, I would like silly in this outfit. But Melania can wear anything and look good, and she looks great here. … Continue reading →
This is my leading theory about Khashoggi, too
Stephen Green writes: It seems possible that Khashoggi was murdered in order to embarrass Crown Prince bin Salman rather than to protect him. If he was murdered at all, that is—and on the whole I think it’s likely that he … Continue reading →