Here’s a story about Ruth Madoff’s life these days. My question is: why the story, and in particular why the need to reveal where she lives? So people can harass her even more than they already do? I’ve written about … Continue reading →
I spend a lot of time on computers and I’ve developed many pet peeves about them. One concerns a phenomenon that’s grown more and more frequent over time: the stupendously annoying coercive forced-choice. It is presented by the pop-up window … Continue reading →
I don’t watch TV news or opinion shows these days, and haven’t for well over a year. And I’ve never watched Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzenzski on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” But if you read the news it’s virtually impossible to … Continue reading →
I thought I’d make today mostly a Trump-free day on the blog. But not a media-free day. And where there’s media, there’s Trump, at least by implication. You can’t get away! So I’m quoting Sharyl Attkisson from a recent interview: … Continue reading →
For the last decade or more, when I fly cross-country I’ve flown Jet Blue almost exclusively. I’ve nearly always had an excellent experience with it: comfortable seats, efficient service, and a tremendous on-time record. But on a recent trip to … Continue reading →
…might be in hot water. The lobster’s revenge.
Continue reading →No real answer is provided in this Vanity Fair article, although the title [“Why Writers Lie (and Plagiarize and Fabricate and Stretch the Truth and…”)] would have you believe it will offer one. This is the closest it comes, and … Continue reading →
…for defamation: Former Governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation over a recent editorial tying one of her political action committee ads to a 2011 mass shooting that severely wounded … Continue reading →
…says article after article and poll after poll. Well, why shouldn’t it be unpopular? The drumbeat of the MSM that’s been denouncing it goes like this: It will kill millions and millions of people. It only favors the rich. It … Continue reading →
Something big happened at CNN, but it’s not really clear what it was. Here’s what’s been revealed so far: Three CNN journalists, including the executive editor in charge of a new investigative unit, have resigned after the publication of a … Continue reading →
An interesting article in the Atlantic by Franklin Foer entitled “What’s Wrong With the Democrats?”: If there’s any consolation to the realization of terrible fears, of worst-case scenarios springing to life, it’s that they are invigorating. Donald Trump’s presidency has … Continue reading →
The CBO has spoken, and the resultant spin on what the CBO has said is that the news is dire, dire, dire. But here’s my question: since when has the CBO been correct on health insurance reform predictions? I don’t … Continue reading →