I’m about to go out…
…leaf peeping. Fall’s here. It’s a sunny day. The time is ripe. So I plan to post a bit more this evening. Here’s an apple orchard I went to this past weekend while visiting an old friend:
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The West Point rot
Many people (me included) wondered how it was that the openly-Communist Spenser Rapone was allowed to graduate from West Point. It’s not as though Rapone was underground with his point of view as a proud Communist. And West Point isn’t … Continue reading →
Trump goes nuclear—or does he?
What are we to make of this series of stories? Headlines: “Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal, Surprising Military” [an NBC story] “Trump suggests challenging NBC’s broadcast license.” [from Politico] “‘I Hate Everyone in the White House!’: Trump Seethes … Continue reading →
Weinstein unveiled: what the Farrow article reveals
Even though I’ve twice said that the Weinstein story fills me with a sense of exhaustion, I’m writing about it at least one more time—not because of Weinstein himself, but because of how much his tale says about the use … Continue reading →
Academic article withdrawn after threats
Our US Red Guard have certainly been busy.
Continue reading →Further thoughts on the Harvey Weinstein silence
In my earlier post about Harvey Weinstein, I wrote: I must admit this story fills me with a feeling of exhaustion. I guess I always assumed that Hollywood was rife with the kind of behavior of which Weinstein is accused, … Continue reading →
More on the Ken Burns documentary about Vietnam
Here’s a roundup of reactions to the Ken Burns documentary about the Vietnam War. Sounds as though Burns’ work was subtly pernicious. [NOTE: As I explained earlier, I didn’t watch it.]
Continue reading →Messing with the Las Vegas shooting timeline
This news sure isn’t going to engender a lot of trust in the police’s competence and/or veracity: The gunman in the Las Vegas massacre first shot a hotel security officer about six minutes before opening fire on an outdoor concert, … Continue reading →
On SCOTUS and gerrymandering:
The gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court is one of those things I’ve been meaning to research in depth but haven’t had the time to do yet. My gut feeling has been that gerrymandering is bad, but it’s done by … Continue reading →
The end of ISIS?
You’d think this might be even bigger news than it seems to be so far: Nearly a thousand Islamic State fighters have surrendered to Kurdish forces after the terror group lost its last major city in Iraq, The New York … Continue reading →
For Columbus Day: statues with footnotes
A little over a month ago, in the heat of the war against statues, New York’s Mayor de Blasio expressed the thought that perhaps an explanatory note might be helpful in dealing with the dreadful conundrum represented by the offending … Continue reading →
Love and Trouble
I recently read—or rather, skimmed—a book I got out of the library entitled Love and Trouble, by Claire Dederer. I’d grabbed it from the library shelf without really studying it because I was in a hurry and the title intrigued … Continue reading →