I don’t know…
…whether to consider this skydiver lucky or unlucky. But I do know that what happened to him was so unusual as to seem virtually impossible. And yet it happened:
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This is not photoshopped: Marilyn Monroe the bodybuilder
Taken for a 1952 photo essay in Life, this picture was one of a series that never got published in the original article:
Continue reading →Koch in the WSJ
I’m told that todays’s Charles Koch opinion piece in the WSJ is good, but I can’t seem to get behind the WSJ firewall. The usual tricks to do so aren’t working, so I’ll link to this excerpt, and leave it … Continue reading →
You may not care about this one…
…but I think it’s charming:
Continue reading →The fastest generation
I was on an airplane recently that was completely full—as almost all airplanes I ride seem to be these days. I was seated on the aisle next to two female college students who were clearly friends of each other. Maybe … Continue reading →
For all those who doubted my Sebelius/O’Toole…
…separated at birth, there’s this, sent in by a helpful reader. On the upper right is an earlier photo of O’Toole, photoshopped to have brown eyes instead of blue, and on the lower right is the same photo, with Sebelius’s … Continue reading →
Separated at birth?
I know this one’s a stretch. One was charismatic, one decidedly not. One had riveting blue eyes, one not. And then of course there’s that little man/woman thing. But still—what do you think?
Continue reading →The combination…
…of socialized medicine, widespread abortion, and energy conservation apparently has yielded this horror in Britain.
Continue reading →Rand Paul speaks at Berkeley
And it seems to go rather well: Delivering a rare speech for a Republican at this bastion of liberalism, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday was given multiple standing ovations by the left-wing audience after railing against government surveillance and … Continue reading →
Michael Totten on Putin’s motives
This seems reasonable to me: Putin has a strategy. And it’s working. What he most fears is that Ukraine might join NATO, removing yet another buffer state between himself and the West and kiboshing his plans for the Eurasian Union, … Continue reading →
Why on earth…
…would Putin listen to any threats or admonitions coming from the US or the EU right now? I cannot think of one. It’s not that they have no economic power over him—they do—it’s that they seem to have no will … Continue reading →
Russian markets…
…say, “Sanctions? Schmanctions.” They’re kvelling, not kvetching. ADDENDUM: And openly mocking: Russia’s deputy prime minister laughed off President Obama’s sanction against him today asking “Comrade @BarackObama” if “some prankster” came up with the list. The Obama administration hit 11 Russian … Continue reading →