…on Gorsuch: he’s too retro and sort of folksy. What sort of idiocy is this column by Milbank in the WaPo? It sounds like junior high school gossip: No fewer than eight times [Gorsuch] punctuated his testimony with “Leave It … Continue reading →
A two-year process starts a little more than a week from now: Britain will begin divorce proceedings from the European Union on March 29, starting the clock on two years of intense political and economic negotiations that will fundamentally change … Continue reading →
[If you haven’t read Part I, you probably should take a look.] When I suddenly began to exhibit symptoms of erythromelalgia I was in my early forties, and it was just one of many mysterious and distressing things that were … Continue reading →
Or are they? [NOTE: The title of this post is a riff on this movie.]
Continue reading →In their continuing quest to find a nefarious connection between Trump and Russia, the latest report has to do with Jeff Sessions talking to the Russian ambassador during the campaign and then not disclosing it to Congress. You can read … Continue reading →
In a NOTE at the end of this post from yesterday, I mentioned that Van Jones (a leftist attorney who had served in the Obama administration) had praised Trump’s SOTU speech, saying of Trump, “If he finds a way to … Continue reading →
It seems they did, at least for a while. If you want a quite detailed discussion of the photo analyses of the incident, see this. Now, you may not trust Snopes; I certainly don’t trust them on some things. But … Continue reading →
All four are examples of that terrible offense: furniture abuse. It’s time we stamped it out. Two of them are in black-and-white, two in color. Three of them feature a male protagonist, one a female. Three of them illustrate desk … Continue reading →
You can talk about it here. UPDATE 10:15 PM I’m purposely listening to CNN post-speech, because I’m curious what they’re saying and how critical they will be. The content of Trump’s speech was about what I expected, but I thought … Continue reading →
I saw this a while ago in an article at the LA Times by Melissa Batchelor Warnke: Philosophy 101 introduces us to Kant’s categorical imperative ”” the first formulation of which is “Act only according to that maxim whereby you … Continue reading →
This sounds excellent: General McMaster is a former commander of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, my old unit. I served in Iraq with a host of guys who’d served under McMaster in the Battle of Tal Afar in 2005, and … Continue reading →