In particular, they are making it less likely we will pay close attention in the first place. Huh? What’s that you said? Simply put, it’s the idea that we’re literally outsourcing our mental capabilities to computers. In 2011, the journal … Continue reading →
Together again.
Continue reading →I happen to agree with Dershowitz on this: “I think the investigation should end and I think the Congress should appoint a special non-partisan commission,” said Dershowitz. He said he thinks a Congressional committee would be too partisan. “That’s the … Continue reading →
As a person who had some trouble with infertility when I was trying to conceive, I found this story very touching.
Continue reading →Not my headline; theirs. It’s a common phenomenon, although to the “non-crazed” among us (that would be most of us), it seems like a bad choice and a bad bet: Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail … Continue reading →
…that it usually ignores at best or insults at worst. In other words: [The first episodes of the Roseanne revival] worked, leaving many TV insiders shellshocked today by the magnitude of the revival’s ratings success that revealed the untapped potential … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Here’s a blast from the not-so-distant past—a repeat of a post I first wrote in May of 2016, close to two years ago. At the end of the original post I added a note stating that, despite my strong … Continue reading →
I’m not ordinarily a sitcom viewer, but I watched about 10 minutes of the new “Roseanne” revival. Then my TV decided to have a problem, and by the time it was fixed I had forgotten about the show and it … Continue reading →
Jonathan Turley is one of those pundits who aren’t conservatives and yet whose work I really appreciate. Another is (often, anyway) Alan Dershowitz. Turley makes a good point about the completely different treatment of Flynn and McCabe for lying to … Continue reading →
This is shocking (or rather, it should be): former SCOTUS Justice Stevens (who is now 97), has written a NY Times op-ed piece calling for the elimination of the Second Amendment. The reason he gives is this: Rarely in my … Continue reading →
No, but it will seem longer. That’s my attempt at a joke. But maybe it’s not a joke. Maybe it’s true. For many years there’s been an idea—derived initially from animal research—that restricting caloric intake makes a person live longer. … Continue reading →
Actually, they appear to be rare, as a recent study has indicated. But one of the reasons for passing Obamacare was the idea pushed by the liberal/left (including and especially Elizabeth Warren) that medical bills were an enormous driver of … Continue reading →