Not that AOC actually cares about history. AOC is a rabble rouser and a demagogue. She may be ignorant about a particular fact or she may actually know the truth and be blatantly lying about it. But either way, she … Continue reading →
Franco Zeffirelli died Saturday at the venerable age of 96. But to me, he was and always will be the director of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” a movie that breathed extraordinary life into Shakespeare. The sweep, color, costumes, … Continue reading →
Can you imagine what the headlines would look like if a Republican had claimed on his/her tax returns that Person A was his/her spouse while still married to Person B? But when Ms. Intersectionality does it, crickets. At least, according … Continue reading →
I find NeverTrumpers interesting. Are they political changers, or political fail-to-changers? Are they virulent anti-Trumpers because of class and style objections, elitism, being part of the DC circle, desire to curry favor with liberal friends, or (as most of them … Continue reading →
…to blogger Gerard Vanderleun on the loss of his beloved and wonderful mother, aged 104 and a half. Please see this. RIP.
Continue reading →Ilhan Omar is in a pack of trouble. Or she would be, if she weren’t a member of several intersectional groups generally protected by the MSM, the Democrats, and the left (that’s redundant, I know): Democrat, leftist, woman, Somalian, immigrant, … Continue reading →
To anyone with an ounce of sense (which certainly isn’t everyone),
Continue reading →Once you watch a YouTube video on a certain topic, YouTube keeps suggesting more. And more. And sometimes I follow their lead—such as recently, with videos of Gwen Verdon that kept coming up following my writing this post about her. … Continue reading →
Rashida Tlaib has been getting a lot of flak, and rightly so, for some remarks she made recently about Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust. The context was a question about the one-state solution, and this is the part of … Continue reading →
Doris Day died yesterday at the age of 97. Day was all sunshine, and her singing voice was velvet. She was mocked by some for being so all-fired wholesome, but she was a great entertainer in several genres and made … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Later on in his interview, the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has much to say about what humans can do on the biological level to help make the world better, in the general … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part II here.] As soon as I saw the headline for this article, I thought it might be about Peter Singer. I’ve written at great length about Singer before (see this, this, and this), and the title of the … Continue reading →