[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] While musing about COVID-19, I wondered whether the virus really is novel. Perhaps it’s been around for a while and just wasn’t causing all that many deaths and therefore wasn’t even noticed until … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ve decided this needs to be at least a two-parter, because there’s so much to be said. Here’s Part I.] I haven’t written too many posts on the new coronavirus (COVID-19) because we know quite little, and much of … Continue reading →
Many years ago I wrote about the following documentary, but I just noticed that the entire thing is on YouTube. I recommend it to anyone interested in the 1972 Andes plane crash survival story, or survival stories in general. It’s … Continue reading →
I have a new YouTube vice: binge-watching old programs of “I Shouldn’t Be Alive,” a show that aired from 2006 to 2012 and featured survival story re-enactments. All the stories are true, and they’re narrated by the actual people who … Continue reading →
I’m not a basketball fan; I stopped watching back in the 1970s. But I’d heard of Kobe Bryant even beore yesterday’s helicopter crash that killed him. He was that big a sports star, and the mourning is widespread. But although … Continue reading →
…worrying the world. The reason is quite simple: much of what we know so far is fragmentary and suspect. The media loves to fan the flames of panic, anyway. But some is just lack of basic understanding as the authorities … Continue reading →
Iran’s not been having a great week. This could end up being a big deal, re the Iranian Deal: Germany, France and the United Kingdom have launched a formal dispute mechanism against Iran which could end up putting international sanctions … Continue reading →
…about its takedown of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 was this: [Ukainian security official] Danilov said Iran had no choice but to admit to shooting down the plane because the facts had become apparent to Ukrainian experts on the ground and … Continue reading →
Iran finally admits what everyone already knew: that it shot down Flight 752. Iran says it was due to “human error.” And predictably, Iran also takes some talking points from the western left and accuses Trump of being the real … Continue reading →
I guess their lies had gotten too preposterous, and Iran authorities figured it would be worse to keep denying it than to finally admit it: Iranian military officials have admitted that the country “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing … Continue reading →
It’s an awful thing to see photos and read about so many lives snuffed out. And most of them appear to have been young. The list at the link has a Canadian focus because it’s a Canadian paper, but that … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: Evidence accumulates that the plane was shot down, although it’s certainly still not known.] As if things weren’t bad enough yesterday, there’s this: …176 people including 63 Canadians died in a plane crash near Tehran, with Iran blaming an … Continue reading →