See Ace on this. It’s hard to say whether this is a new low on the part of the Times in recent years (there were even lower lows in the more distant past, such as Duranty), because there’s so much … Continue reading →
DNA testing has a few pitfalls, the best-known of which is probably potential privacy issues. At this point, unless a person posts results on one of the unprotected sites, I think privacy isn’t a big concern, although it certainly could … Continue reading →
This is very chilling: Pete Buttigieg decided it was a good idea to have a nine-year-old child join him on stage at a campaign event in Denver on Saturday to talk about his sexuality. If you didn’t think the end … Continue reading →
This is a Canadian story, but it’s often the case that the US follows close on Canada’s heels with PC legal rulings. So here’s what it’s about: For the past 11 months, Robert Hoogland, a father in Surrey, British Columbia, … Continue reading →
The #MeToo movement has given me the willies from the very first moment I read about it. It seemed, and still seems, designed to allow unfounded accusations to be disseminated, accepted on faith, and proceed to destroy men’s lives. Note … Continue reading →
Simone de Beauvoir and her even-more-famous lover Jean-Paul Sartre, darlings of feminists and the left, were loathsome characters in their personal lives as well in their politics, despite the heroic and self-aggrandizing legends they took great pains to establish. When … Continue reading →
I cared even less about this year’s Superbowl than I usually do – and since I usually don’t care, that means I didn’t bother to turn on the TV. But I know many people do care, so here’s a thread … Continue reading →
Doris Lessing was a well-known writer who died in 2013 after a very long life and many prizes, including a Nobel. I confess that I’ve never read a thing she wrote, although I tried a few times. It just didn’t … Continue reading →
If you want to get up to speed on the tension that came up between Warren and Sanders in the Democrats’ debate Tuesday night, see this. The summary version is that Warren accused Sanders of saying that in 2020 a … Continue reading →
At my son’s request, I read the first two Harry Potter books shortly after they first came out. They were okay as that sort of thing goes, but since I’m not keen on that sort of thing, I stopped reading … Continue reading →
Here’s Obama: If women ran every country in the world there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes, former US President Barack Obama has said. Speaking in Singapore, he said women aren’t perfect, but are “indisputably better” … Continue reading →
A commenter writes: There are many irrational men and many rational women, but it is an unfortunate truth that a majority female vote got every Democrat President elected since women’s sufferage. Women are much more susceptible to the concept of … Continue reading →