There are so many wonderful Jordan Peterson videos it’s hard to choose just one (or watch just one; they’re like potato chips). But I think this is especially fine: I’ll add that, having watched quite a bit of Peterson speaking … Continue reading →
…(as quoted in Politico, anyway; I couldn’t find the origins of the quote): “That’s what [prosecutors will] threaten [Cohen] with: life imprisonment,” said Alan Dershowitz, the liberal lawyer and frequent Trump defender who met with the president and his staff … Continue reading →
I remember her as a forthright, no-nonsense woman who felt like a breath of fresh air as First Lady—and I was a Democrat back then. And what a life! Married at 19 to George Bush, she’d met him at 16 … Continue reading →
Just a few hours ago I wrote about some of the news du jour as being too much like the Onion for comfort. One of those news items was Comey’s interviews and book, about which I said: Oh, how the … Continue reading →
Look, I take my humor wherever I can find it these days. Even if it’s in the real, live, very unfake news. And even if that unfake news sounds like the sort of fake news that used to air only … Continue reading →
They’re Uncle Toms, or minstrels, or whatever the epithet du jour is. And this somehow proves that it’s those on the right who are the racists. The logic is impeccable. Bree Newsome, an artist and activist, described [Diamond and Silk, … Continue reading →
Here’s the story. I bet Trump has gained increased sympathy in recent months for those caught up in a politically vindictive net and charged with “process” crimes. Libby was certainly one of them. Libby’s sentence had already been commuted by … Continue reading →
I had forgotten (or never knew) the Mueller connection to the Whitey Bulger case, but Alan Dershowitz hasn’t forgotten. For those of you non-New Englanders, here’s the gist of it: Look, [Mueller’s] the guy who kept four innocent people in … Continue reading →
I didn’t watch Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony yesterday, and I didn’t read a transcript of it, either. But I did read several summaries, and I’m in agreement with what John Hinderaker writes here: Zuckerberg responded by acknowledging”“remarkably, I think”“that Silicon Valley … Continue reading →
Does this news make you happy? It doesn’t make me happy. Ryan is a moderate Republican. A lot of people on the right can’t stand moderate Republicans and want them out, either believing they can be replaced by conservatives, or … Continue reading →
And who better to do it? I initially thought that any advice Rather could give on the topic would be utterly ridiculous, given his history. But actually, his advice isn’t half bad. Is it possible he’s learned something in the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Here’s a blast from the not-so-distant past—a repeat of a post I first wrote in May of 2016, close to two years ago. At the end of the original post I added a note stating that, despite my strong … Continue reading →