[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] If someone – say, Howard Hughes (to take one obvious example) – wants to become an eccentric isolate in an attempt to protect himself against disease or other mishap, I may think he’s … Continue reading →
Commenter “J.J.” writes: When the incursion into the Capitol occurred, it just didn’t make sense to me. The Trump rally was going to be yuuge. The security should have been massive. The National Guard was offered and refused. The security … Continue reading →
Here’s the edict: US Capitol Police officers will arrest visitors and staff members who refuse to comply with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s renewed COVID-19 mask mandate — heightening tensions with Republicans who call the mandate an unscientific power trip. Police … Continue reading →
I was just on the phone clearing something up with my credit card company, and while I was waiting I got the usual “we will be recording this conversation” message. I can’t remember when that first began, but I know … Continue reading →
I know I’ve already written quite a bit about the Whitmer defendants and the issue of possible entrapment, but this discussion by Viva Frei and Robert Barnes on the topic is particularly good and not all that long: And this … Continue reading →
Actually, it sometimes feels as though the entire world has gone stark raving mad lately. But some places have gone more mad than others: Case in point, Australia: It’s hard to know exactly when Australia’s pandemic response crossed the line … Continue reading →
It’s come to this: It should be shocking to see a *media outlet* try to create new ways to enable media outlets to be sued and punished because of the views they air, but there's nothing shocking about it, because … Continue reading →
Viva Frei sums it up for you so far: The Michigan case is especially important because it increasingly appears similar to what may have been going on and what may still be going on with the January 6th “insurrection.” I … Continue reading →
Note the similarity. First, in Hong Kong: Five speech therapists in hoods and handcuffs were led away by security police in Hong Kong yesterday for distributing “seditious” children’s books that depict China as a malevolent wolf… The gesture of defiance … Continue reading →
Years ago, when the internet really got going, one of its big attractions was that it gave everyone who wanted one a voice. For example, in the blogophere’s early days, different individuals would compete in the marketplace of ideas to … Continue reading →
Not “fascism” as in “mean people doing mean things that I don’t like,” but “fascism” in its economic sense of “large private businesses being in bed with government”? Fascism as an economic system is sometimes described this way: As such, … Continue reading →
Here are some of the allegations against January 6th demonstrator Robert Morss: Federal agents seized a plastic replica of the Capitol building from the Pennsylvania home of Robert Morss during his arrest on June 11. Justice Department officials are citing … Continue reading →