…are “dialogue” and “conversation.” Unfortunately, the left has turned the first into Orwellian Newspeak for I will harangue you for your failings as a member of a privileged or doubleplusungood group and you will sit there and listen respectfully without … Continue reading →
You may have already heard about the punishment meted out yesterday by Republicans to Representative Steve King of Iowa: House GOP leaders moved Monday to remove Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) from all of his committee assignments following a firestorm over … Continue reading →
John McWhorter has written an article for the Atlantic entitled: “Trump’s Typos Reveal His Lack of Fitness for the Presidency: They suggest not just inadequate manners or polish, but inadequate thought.” Oh, really? The conviction that grammar and/or spelling errors … Continue reading →
For example: I’m in the Oval Office. Democrats, come back from vacation now and give us the votes necessary for Border Security, including the Wall. You voted yes in 2006 and 2013. One more yes, but with me in office, … Continue reading →
For those of you who read my recent post about the Yiddish “Fiddler on the Roof” currently playing in New York and were curious to get a taste of what it’s like, here’s a clip of very short excerpts. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →
I’m in New York for Christmas, and the other evening I went to see a production of “Fiddler on the Roof”—in Yiddish. No, I don’t speak Yiddish, except for the usual 100 words of insult that have somehow crept into … Continue reading →
These days, it’s likely to be four letters: American names are shrinking. The two most popular names in the US for baby boys in 2017 were Liam and Noah; for girls, Emma and Ava were two of the three most … Continue reading →
…without actually doing them physical harm (that’s a different competition), Google executive David Hogue is going for the gold. I’m not going to reproduce what he wrote; it’s just too hateful. Follow the link and you’ll get the picture. I … Continue reading →
Senator Rand Paul has had a rough couple of years of it. He was present but not injured when Steve Scalise was almost murdered on the baseball field by a Republican-hating shooter. And Paul had his very own incident of … Continue reading →
I am heartily sick of Christine Blasey Ford, and I hope her three weeks of fame is now over or will be over very very very soon, and she will return to the obscurity she professes to crave. Whatever happens, … Continue reading →
See this: The guy who created the Devil’s Triangle drinking game calls himself the “founder” of it in the yearbook, and a guy going to different college than Kavanaugh sent a sworn letter to the FBI states that Kavanaugh’s friend … Continue reading →
Yiddish is a language that has a lot of words that express personality qualities and types, particularly loser types or mean types or conniving types. These words often combine humor with rueful sarcasm and cynical realism about the vagaries of … Continue reading →