To me this is surprising, considering the enemy the Brits now face: …[M]ore than 90 percent of the capital’s police officers carry out their daily duties without a gun. Most rely on other tools to keep their city safe: canisters … Continue reading →
Not gonna link to it; I’m going to assume you’ve seen it and know what I’m talking about. My only commentary is this: Kathy Griffin has long been a humorless and unpleasant person whose specialty is supposed humor of the … Continue reading →
Ginaforte won, 50 to 44. Why did he win, despite his being charged with misdemeanor assault? Some or all of the following: (1) Two-thirds of the votes had already been cast, and so recent events had a limited ability to … Continue reading →
I figure I ought to cover this story. It’s the lead story at memeorandum and plenty of other places. The gist of it is that Montana Republican US House of Representatives candidate Greg Gianforte is reported to have body-slammed Guardian … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote this: In the case of Manchester terrorist Salman Abedi, there were warnings aplenty. But they were general, and amounted to mere speech of a suspicious nature, and it’s not surprising that nothing was done… This is potentially … Continue reading →
I noticed mention of Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan in the comments section yesterday, to wit: [Calling terrorists “evil losers”] is the single strongest blow against Evil Losing Islamic terrorists since Sirhan Sirhan murdered RFK. And commenter Bill wrote in … Continue reading →
The Manchester attack at the Ariana Grande concert last night deliberately targeted very young people. It’s an example of what I have previously called the “Pied Piper Impluse”: Terrorists seem to operate under the Pied Piper Impulse of “get them … Continue reading →
Anyone else see a resemblance in the way they operate[d]? The North Korean leader is operating on a much larger scale, of course. His weaponry is decidedly more advanced, as well. But both tried to instill in their followers a … Continue reading →
The NY Times writes: What is playing out, said Robert Litwak of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who tracks this potentially deadly interplay, is “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion.” But the slow-motion part appears to be … Continue reading →
As far as I’m concerned, the 1948 David Lean black-and-white version of “Oliver Twist” is the masterpiece of the many movie versions of the story. I first saw the film as a child and it scared me horribly at times, … Continue reading →
Famous author Joyce Carol Oates is known for the number and length of her fiction output. But she’s also a Twitter-user, and yesterday she retweeted this pithy thought: “I could shoot 24 million people on Fifth Avenue & I would’t … Continue reading →
Here’s how the situation began: [Officer] Bardes and a Florida Highway Patrol trooper were at the scene of a car crash when Strother’s Toyota Camry swerved and drove along the left shoulder at what seemed to be at least 100 … Continue reading →