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Baby it’s cold – and rainy – outside
I’m on the west coast for a while, visiting friends and family. It’s been raining incessantly and the forecast is for more of the same. Cold rain in the winter – ugh! Then again, I’m happy to be here and … Continue reading →
Trump tackles the”affordability”of medication
Trump has made another deal: In his latest effort to lower drug costs, President Donald Trump unveiled Friday “Most Favored Nation” pricing deals with nine more pharmaceutical companies. The president also announced he would call a meeting next week or … Continue reading →
My guess at the Brown/Brookline killer’s motive
From a professor in Portugal who had taught Neves Valente, the man who killed the two students at Brown and the MIT physics professor in Brookline: Professor Bruno Gonçalves remembers teaching Claudio Neves Valente at the Instituto Superior Técnico in … Continue reading →
Elise Stefanik says she’s dropping out
This doesn’t seem like good news at all. Stefanik was one of the most prominent Republican House members, known in particular for her sharp questioning of the three Ivy presidents about anti-Semitism, and running for the governorship in New York: … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/20/2025
Minnesota: the fraudster’s haven
This is just extraordinary: One wonders how much of the social welfare money handed out all over the country has been to perpetrators of fraud. We’ve always known fraud existed in such programs, but the scope of the fraud being … Continue reading →
The Brown killer and the Brookline killer were the same Portuguese ex-student in physics, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente
And now he’s dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Salem, NH. Oh, and it was a homeless ex-student in physics, who lives in the classroom building in which the Brown murders took place, who broke the case – posting … Continue reading →
The mis-education of generations of US students: it was actually Qatar who sold us the rope with which we’ll hang ourselves
Many long years ago – perhaps thirty-five? – I read an article describing what was being taught in schools in Palestine, and it made my blood run cold. I don’t recall what periodical it was in, but it certainly wasn’t … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/19/2025
You can now buy INTO THE SMOKE OF THE WORLD, the book of Gerard Van der Leun’s poetry [scroll down for new posts, because I’ve pinned this one]
I’m extremely pleased to announce that Gerard Van der Leun’s poetry book, Into the Smoke of the World and other poems, is ready for purchase. Poetry was very dear to Gerard’s heart, and this beautiful book features almost all of … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) RIP, neocon extraordinaire Norman Podhoretz, dead at 95. Here’s his son’s loving tribute. (2) The GOP health plan passes in the House. The claim is that it lowers premiums by 11%. Will it pass the Senate? And if so, … Continue reading →