What’s good for the goose…
…isn’t good for the gander. And the gander’s doing something about it.
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The napalm girl photograph: the myth continues
It never seems to end, does it? I’ve written about this famous photograph several times before, at great length here for PJ Media, and also here and here on the blog.
Continue reading →Is television ready for angry women?
That’s the title of this Atlantic article that caught my eye. Actually, it caught Pocket’s eye, which decided to recommend it to me on the basis of some algorithm or other. My immediate reaction was a stomach-churning “No!!” Hasn’t TV … Continue reading →
Nunes on the “spy”
Worth watching:
Continue reading →Mark Penn, special counsels, and consistency
I spend a lot of time reading the work of other writers on politics. Some of them—probably the vast majority—purport to be objective journalists but write with an obvious bias. What’s so obvious about it? Well, one thing is that … Continue reading →
RIP Bernard Lewis
I was thinking about Bernard Lewis the other day and wondering whether he was still alive, because I remembered that even at the time of 9/11 (when I’d first heard of him) he was already pretty old. I got my … Continue reading →
This is why they’re called “retrievers”
Retrievers retrieve: But how on earth does a deer get into the ocean? I’ve also seen retrievers nearly drown a person in their exuberant drive to retrieve that person.
Continue reading →Watergate II: Collusiongate
Unlike Watergate, the current crisis in government/spying/politics doesn’t have a memorable name. But for those of us who lived through Watergate it has a certain resonance with that event as well as major differences, imparting a strange sense of familiarity, … Continue reading →
Fashion at the royal wedding
No, it’s not going to be all fashion all the time today. But sometimes a person just has to relax. A sampling of the styles at the Harry and Meghan wedding— Oprah, nice try but I don’t think so. The … Continue reading →
Royal wedding, royal dress
I didn’t know until yesterday that today was the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but of course once I learned it I had to comment on the fashion. To wit, the dress: I happen to like plain, classic, … Continue reading →
Another false accusation of racism…
…an accusation that is easily proven false. Why would someone make a claim that is so very easily disproved? Do people doing this fool themselves into thinking the paranoid story they’ve made up actually happened the way they’re telling it? … Continue reading →
The “whistleblower” on Michael Cohen’s finances
The war on Michael Cohen continues with the disclosure of some of his financial records: Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’s attorney, published a memo last week that he said detailed Michael Cohen’s financial transactions… But questions arose about how Avenatti had … Continue reading →