RIP Tom Wolfe
Writer Tom Wolfe has died at 88. Reading a lot of commentary around the web, I notice that Wolfe was a deeply meaningful writer to a great many people, some of whom say he changed their lives. I have to … Continue reading →
Category Archives: People of interest
The economy, stupid
Commenter and forecaster extraordinaire “Cornhead” (aka attorney David Begley) writes about a question-and-answer session with Warren Buffett that he attended: In response to another question Buffett said that while he spent his own money backing Hillary Clinton, it would have … Continue reading →
John Kerry at it again, doing what he does best
One of the many many perks of the end of the Obama administration was the long-hoped-for fading away from public life of John Forbes Kerry. When I looked at that Wiki entry of Kerry’s I was surprised to see that … Continue reading →
“Unfettered power”
Remember the Paul Manafort case? The judge there (T. S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee) is not pleased with the Mueller crew: “You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort,” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Mueller’s team. “You really care … Continue reading →
The black bloc: Et tu, Kanye?
Oh-oh. Kanye West, one of the most visible of music superstars, married to media personality Kim Kardashian, has praised political changer Candace Owens (aka “Red Pill Black”; I have written about Owens previously here). The Twitter hordes have descended on … Continue reading →
Comey, Cohen, Dershowitz, and Scooter Libby: the rule of law
I’m very very tired of writing about James Comey. And yet there’s something (or many things) morbidly fascinating about him, now that he’s been unleashed on his book promotion tour and now that his memos have seen the light of … Continue reading →
More Jordan Peterson: on “equality” and where it leads
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 →
According to Dershowitz…
…(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 →
Barbara Bush dies at 92
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 →
Aha! It had to happen—the real Onion weighs in on Comey
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 →
The Not-The-Onion news of the day
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 →
Still another demonstration of the fact that liberals think it’s perfectly okay to be racist towards black conservatives
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 →