…is that he’s pretty good at firing people whose performance he finds wanting. So, is Bannon in disfavor and possibly on the way out? I haven’t a clue. But it wouldn’t break my heart if it were to happen.
Continue reading →This article by Michael Totten is a review of a book by James Kirchick entitled The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. The most important line of the Totten article is “the West is losing the … Continue reading →
…this was probably the stupidest and most unfair. And it worked. Which is probably the saddest thing of all about it. Binders! Women! Romney binds women! He is an evil Republican who wants to make women slaves!
Continue reading →[NOTE: This is a slightly edited repeat of a previous post.] Monday evening was the beginning of the Jewish holiday Passover. In recent years whenever I’ve attended a Seder, I’ve been impressed by the fact that Passover is a religious … Continue reading →
The world seems to be abuzz about
Continue reading →In this thread from Saturday, quite a few people rhapsodized on how much they like audio books, and they recommended them to me. I’ve written before about my problems with auditory learning (see this and this), but now I’d like … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “DNW”] Trump may have lost his EO battle with the courts for now, and the sanctuary city conflict is probably going to heat up. But he’s been winning a quieter battle (so far) on the southern border, … Continue reading →
…an airline can’t get off scot-free with this sort of heavy-handed action, which dominated the public chatter today. United Airlines and many other airlines overbook for perfectly understandable economic reasons. It doesn’t usually cause problems, because they also offer economic … Continue reading →
…remind me of flamenco dancers:
Continue reading →Last month I got William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich out of the library. I had actually read it many moons ago, when I was a teenager. But “read” is a bit of a euphemism. It … Continue reading →
No surprise here: The suspect in Stockholm’s deadly beer truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities’ radar previously, Swedish authorities said Saturday… There is nothing that tells us that we have the wrong person,” … Continue reading →
I’m issuing a warning, and I’m not kidding: If you’re at all sensitive to disgusting stories, you might want to skip the entire rest of this post, and you certainly might not want to click on this link about a … Continue reading →