Today I happened across this article featuring an interview with Harvard psychiatry professor Staci Gruber, who issues some warnings about the legalization of marijuana: There is an awful lot that we don’t know. What we do know primarily comes from … Continue reading →
“Two Different Worlds” was a love song from the 50s about lovers from different backgrounds who were going to beat the odds and make it work. Looking at the news lately, the phrase pops into my head—but not in the … Continue reading →
This report in Politico plays on the right’s fears that the GOP Congress will never do much about Obamacare: Former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replace of Obamacare is “not going to happen.” … Continue reading →
This article by Lee Smith seems to be about two things that are loosely related. The first is the likelihood that, with the “Trump is Russia’s puppet” story, there’s no there there. But it’s the second I want to write … Continue reading →
Obsession may be a necessary but not sufficient requirement for success in the arts (and perhaps even elsewhere). I know quite a few people who later became famous—some a little famous, some more famous. Having known these people in childhood … Continue reading →
Two promising chess-playing siblings [from Iran] have been banned from [national chess] tournaments…after the sister failed to wear a hijab and her brother played an Israeli. Dorsa and Borna Derakhshani, two of the country’s leading youth chess players, were told … Continue reading →
Milo Yiannopoulos has been uniformly excoriated for some remarks he made about sex between older men and teenage boys, in which he indicated that in some cases consent is possible. He’s lost a book deal, a speaking gig at GPAC, … Continue reading →
I saw this a while ago in an article at the LA Times by Melissa Batchelor Warnke: Philosophy 101 introduces us to Kant’s categorical imperative ”” the first formulation of which is “Act only according to that maxim whereby you … Continue reading →
So, first thing that happened was that Trump made an ambiguous and poorly-worded remark about Sweden’s crime and how it relates to immigration: …[T]here’s also a problem with Trump that I see in [his statement] “you look at what’s happening … Continue reading →
The headline in USA today announces “Homeland Security unveils sweeping plan to deport undocumented immigrants.” When I first read that, I assumed that this represented some sort of blueprint for going after “undocumented” (people who arrived here illegally) immigrants all … Continue reading →
This sounds excellent: General McMaster is a former commander of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, my old unit. I served in Iraq with a host of guys who’d served under McMaster in the Battle of Tal Afar in 2005, and … Continue reading →
Apparently there’s an eighth continent in the southwest Pacific. A huge landmass, mostly submerged beneath the ocean, bears all the hallmarks of a continent, according to a new study published by the Geological Society of America. You may have heard … Continue reading →