First of all, let’s call it the right thing: it’s not a health care bill, it’s a health insurance bill. Semantics aside, what’s in it? And does it matter? I doubt this will be the final version, but it’s a … Continue reading →
It occurred in Iraq, killed an ISIS fighter, was by a Canadian sniper, and was fired from two miles away (11,319 feet.). That’s pretty extraordinary. The sniper and the exact location have not been identified, but we do know this: … Continue reading →
The 80s and 90s featured a great deal of hysteria about child abuse in daycare, and there were a number of high-profile miscarriages of justice, most notably the McMartin case and Fells Acres in Massachusetts. In large part, the convictions … Continue reading →
An update is supposed to make things better, right? But it seems to me that a great many of them (you can’t predict which ones—or at least I can’t) will throw a monkey wrench into the works instead. After several … Continue reading →
Georgia’s 6th Congressional District has been Republican for quite some time, sometimes solidly Republican, and it turns out that yesterday was no exception: Republican Karen Handel won by about four points despite the Democrats’ throwing a ton of money into … Continue reading →
As I get older, I have lost more and more people I love and care about to cancer—one of them very very recently. Others I’m very close to have had the disease and are (knock wood) okay so far. Anyone … Continue reading →
I have no idea who will win. Neither does anyone else. But it’s being hyped to the skies as very very important, as well as indicative of trends and signs and portents for the future not limited to this one … Continue reading →
…has died. Very sad indeed. RIP. The tour company that sponsored Warmbier’s trip has now decided it will no longer offer this service: For years, Young Pioneer Tours has happily boasted: “We provide budget travel to destinations your mother would … Continue reading →
I mean really, what is it?: …[A] hotel in Japan…allows couples getting married to hire an alpaca to act as the witness. Allows it? I’d say encourages it: The hotel in question, the Epinard Nasu in Tochigi, even allows the … Continue reading →
In the New Yorker, Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gerson writes: The sheer number of Cosby accusers who have come forward, and the consistency of their descriptions of his modus operandi, are so overwhelming that they produce little doubt that … Continue reading →
Donation week is over. That wasn’t too painful, was it? Of course, you can donate any time the spirit moves you, not just during donation week. Every contribution is much much appreciated, and I say that from the bottom of … Continue reading →
This one appears to have been an anti-Muslim retaliation by a man who is currently in police custody: The man arrested on suspicion of carrying out the Finsbury Park terror attack is 47-year-old Darren Osborne from Cardiff, the BBC understands. … Continue reading →