Fiddling with DC crime statistics
The police chief of Washington DC recently resigned. She’s
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Reflections on the Reiner family tragedy
Probably all of us know a family or families where lives have been upended by drug addiction – probably not as dramatically as the Reiners’ lives were, where the endpoint was apparently matricide and patricide – but badly enough, and … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/17/2025
Who is Mustapha Kharbouch and why are his pages being wiped?
Mustapha Kharbouch is a student at Brown, but suddenly his social media pages and other articles about him are disappearing and people are speculating: Social media users Tuesday claimed that a Brown University social media footprints were getting deleted as … Continue reading →
Newsom and fraud in California
Anyone surprised?: Someone needs to make this make sense “Tim Walz is getting destroyed for a billion dollar fraud scandal, but nobody’s talking about California – Tim Walz lost only a billion dollars. Federal investigation, people going to prison – … Continue reading →
More on the Bondi Beach shooters, heroes, and victims
More facts emerge: [The younger] Akram is an Australian-born citizen, while his 50-year-old father arrived in the country in 1998 on a student visa, which later transitioned to a partner visa in 2001, Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/16/2025
Were the Brown victims targeted?
Authorities are now saying that Benjamin Erickson was not the killer, and we don’t know who was: [Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha] said that there was only “some degree of evidence” that led them to Erickson, but said their … Continue reading →
The Reiner murders
Rob Reiner’s son Nick – who was arrested for the murder of his parents – had a history of severe drug problems and had been behaving strangely lately: Family friends told The Times that Rob and Nick Reiner got into … Continue reading →
What a weekend: mere anarchy
Too many murders, both of the public political and jihadi type, and of the private. They signify different things and threaten different things, but there’s this quality to it: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/15/2025
Mass shooting at Sydney beach, mass shooting at Brown University [scroll down for UPDATES]
Two gunmen opened fire on a crowd at Sydney’s Bondi Beach celebrating the beginning of Chanukah, killing an unknown number of people (presently reported as sixteen) and wounding many more. This is the embodiment of “globalize the intifada.” One of … Continue reading →