McCarthy writes: The Justice Department has a history of treating serious campaign-finance transgressions as administrative violations, not felonies. A prominent example: The 2008 Obama campaign accepted nearly $2 million in illegal campaign contributions, but was permitted to settle the matter … Continue reading →
I was in Florence yesterday. I’m only about a half hour south of there, so it was a no-brainer to go, although I knew it would be crowded and very hot. It was crowded and very very hot. Walking on … Continue reading →
The first sentence of this article is telling, isn’t it?: President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort on Tuesday was found guilty of eight of the 18 charges brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller. It’s really quite simple: … Continue reading →
Pot’s illegality hasn’t stopped it from being used with great frequency in recent years by a great deal of the American public. So why not legalize it? Well, one reason might be that it would result in even higher use: … Continue reading →
[NOTE: It might help to have read this previous post of mine, about free-climbing El Capitan, before reading the present post.] This article is about Dean Potter, a free-climbing star who died in a base-jumping accident in 2015. It was … Continue reading →
The word “dog” is not (and as far as I know, never has been) a racially-tinged epithet, although the WaPo would have you think it is: The president of the United States had just lobbed another racially charged insult — … Continue reading →
I noticed that yesterday, rather suddenly, the comments began to have double time stamps. This had been a problem in the early days of the new blog (long before the redirect), and I fixed it months ago, but it wasn’t … Continue reading →
Any prognosticators out there?
Continue reading →Recent sightings, and a culinary observation: Ever since I tasted my first piece of bread here, I wondered: why? Why no salt? Bread without salt doesn’t taste very good at all. Tuscany is really into food, and good food, so … Continue reading →
Apparently not.
Continue reading →I’m so risk-averse I don’t even like to play the stock market. My aversion to risk is one of the many, many, many reasons I’m not Donald Trump. On the other hand, I do own some stocks, and I understand … Continue reading →
Josh Marshall on Trump and Russia: The greatest conceit in public life today is the notion that we don’t already know President Trump is guilty. Guilty of what? Conspiring, by whatever level of directness, with a foreign power to win … Continue reading →