Bezos buys the WaPo
The MSM seems to be treating this as a very big story. I can’t imagine why, although for them I suppose it’s a sort of inside baseball. But I’ll provide this thread for those of you who want to talk … Continue reading →
Category Archives: People of interest
This is surprising
Why surprising? After all, he’s 67. But George W. Bush seemed to be in superb health and took very good care of himself. Did all the right things. And yet: a stent was placed in an artery following blockage discovered … Continue reading →
Mugabe gives a lesson in how it’s done
On Saturday Robert Mugabe won the election in Zimbabwe handily against challenger Morgan Tsvangirai. Republicans: take note, and don’t make the mistakes Tsvangirai made. As for Obama and his fellow leftists: they’ve been taking notes all along. And here’s how … Continue reading →
Bill Cosby, the Zimmerman case, and guns
Look, I want to give Bill Cosby his props. He’s been speaking up courageously for years on the problems within the black community, and he’s gotten a lot of flak for it. It can’t have been easy for him. Here … Continue reading →
The “reality” of Kate’s bump: one more piece of evidence of how far down the road to madness the world has gone
Here it is: “I think what Kate [Middleton] has done for new moms has really given them a tremendous gift,” thebump.com editor Lori Richmond told ABC News. The duchess glowed as she debuted her little prince outside St. Mary’s Hospital … Continue reading →
Maybe…
…Strauss-Kahn should just run for mayor of New York. And lest you say “he can’t; he’s French,” I don’t see any impediment. I could be missing something, but the rules say nothing about being a US citizen: Requirements: The Mayor … Continue reading →
Maria the Riveter
It doesn’t quite have the ring of Rosie the Riveter, but it’s quite a story nonetheless. Rasputin’s daughter, ending up in Los Angeles—of course, why not? So, did Rasputin himself get a bad press? [NOTE: This post was sparked by … Continue reading →
Introverts of the world…
…just act like an extrovert and you’ll be happier. Well, of course. I’ve been attempting to do that, with a modicum of success, for decades. I call myself an extroverted introvert. And Rogers and Hammerstein were well aware of the … Continue reading →
The family Wittgenstein
I had heard about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein back in college. The sum total of what I knew about him was that he said something or other about how we can’t speak about things we have no words for. But … Continue reading →
Shelby Steele: what the Zimmerman case says about today’s civil rights establishment
In an excellent article (please read the whole thing), Shelby Steele writes: In the Zimmerman/Martin case the civil-rights establishment is fighting for the poetic truth that white animus toward blacks is still such that a black teenager””Skittles and ice tea … Continue reading →
Who was…
…that masked man?: George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today. Zimmerman was … Continue reading →
What I took away…
…from this post of Ace’s is that Al Sharpton is 58. Fifty-eight? He looks seventy-eight to me. I consider fifty-eight young (hey, I’m starting to consider seventy-eight kinda young, too. It’s all in the attitude, right?) Sharpton used to be … Continue reading →