I hope so. Kenyan President Kenyatta says so: Kenya’s president said on Tuesday that his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s al Shabaab, had shot five of them dead and detained 11 others suspected of killing 67 people after storming … Continue reading →
British poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a complicated man, like many poets. But unlike most of them these days, he was politically of the right, at least in some respects. Larkin wrote in forms, which is inherently conservative. But his … Continue reading →
Something lovely to contemplate over the weekend. They’re called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds: When two different layers of air are moving at different speeds in the atmosphere, a wave structure will often form. The upper layers of air are moving at higher … Continue reading →
Today I’m visiting a relative and, wouldn’t you know it, there are major connectivity problems. So I’ll be uncharacteristically–and perhaps blessedly–brief (and please forgive any grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors; I’m not on a regular computer and can barely read … Continue reading →
Haven’t you? Let’s start practicing:
Continue reading →…that, according to the stores, Halloween has arrived? Give us a break, please. First let us get used to September.
Continue reading →The Kindle Paperwhite is coming out on September 30, and although I don’t know that it’s “the best device for reading, period,” as the ad claims, it seems like a pretty nifty gadget nonetheless. As this reviewer says, it represents … Continue reading →
…violates a basic rule of password protection. Giants walk the earth these days.
Continue reading →This article about the inadequacy of the NSA’s security check of Edward Snowden is behind a WSJ firewall, but here’s a discussion of what it said: A federal review revealed that the U.S. government bungled NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s most … Continue reading →
The Bradley Manning verdict just in: A military judge Tuesday acquitted Pfc. Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy ”” the most serious charge the Army intelligence analyst faced for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables. … Continue reading →
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 →
Most people refer to the problems that have come to the fore in Obama’s second term—the deepening of the Benghazi evidence of wrongdoing on the government’s part, the misuse of the IRS’s power for political reasons, the NSA domestic spying, … Continue reading →