It’s been almost a quarter of a century. When put that way, it seems hard to believe, doesn’t it? And yet in some ways a lifetime ago. As the British poet Philip Larkin wrote in a poem looking back on … Continue reading →
This is terrible terrible news: Trump, 79, announced Kirk’s death in a post on Truth Social, writing: “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States … Continue reading →
It’s really really hard to know what to make of this sort of thing. Seems like a lot of rumors and anonymous sources. But make of it what you will: Israeli officials appeared on Wednesday to increasingly cast doubt on … Continue reading →
There are few details as yet on this story, but it sounds bad: Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah on Wednesday. Bystanders report seeing Kirk shot near his neck during a Q&A … Continue reading →
When I was very young – in my early teens – I was alone, flipping around the TV dial late one night, and came across the Ingmar Bergman movie The Virgin Spring. It’s not for young people. I didn’t know … Continue reading →
The first topic I’ll be tackling in this post is: why did Decarlos Brown so seldom have to answer to the court? Here’s a handy timeline, although it certainly doesn’t answer all my questions on the subject. But some of … Continue reading →
… and kills them, or at least many of them. If they thought they were safe in Qatar, they were wrong. One of the many interesting things about the post-10/7 world is the demonstration of all the things Israel had … Continue reading →
The two killers were from the so-called West Bank (Judea and Samaria). They are now dead, killed by heroic armed bystanders: Six people were murdered Monday and 12 were wounded, six of them seriously, when a pair of Palestinian terrorists … Continue reading →
I saw a link to an article about the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska back when it happened a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t click on it because one can’t follow everything, and I figured it was … Continue reading →
It shouldn’t be unusual for a politician to be able to admit an inconvenient truth, but it is. So praise is due to Muriel Boswer for this: Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser admitted on Wednesday that crime in the district … Continue reading →
I’ve been thinking about September 1, 1939 quite a bit lately. The reason is that I’ve been watching YouTube videos in which Holocaust survivors describe their experiences. I plan to write more about those videos – I have a lot … Continue reading →
This is astounding (the clip I’ve selected is about three minutes long): Those instructions read something like the advice a therapist might give to deal with a verbal spat between friends or acquaintances. They would be absurd to use in … Continue reading →