Category: Politics
-
I’ve found it quite informative to uber around a teenager who recently completed the classroom component of driver’s education. Another big mistake I’ve made is commenting on political posts I see on social media. My guiding principle has been that, though entitled to their own opinions, users should not take shelter in what George Conway’s…
-
Though not a fan of the Republican party, I harbor within myself a kind of grudging admiration for what, if the R’s were trying to be funny, might be called their wobbly “commitment to the bit.” They hate DEI, because everyone should rise only as high as their own merit merits–which explains why their candidate…
-
I like to keep up with the topics and arguments of the other side, which is why I sometimes scroll over to the website of National Review–America’s foremost journal of conservative political opinion, according to National Review. Last time I visited, a day or two ago, I took a picture of what I saw on…
-
Don’t worry, I’m a subscriber, so didn’t pay anywhere near $10.99 for the current New Yorker. Although, considering that it’s a weekly and I’ve usually not glanced at the last one when the next one shows up, a financial adviser would probably tell me not to renew. The main loss would be that I don’t…
-
Michele Tafoya grew up in SoCal, where she attended high school in the affluent surfer ‘burbs of Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach. She then went to college at Cal-Berkeley followed by business school at USC. Her first media job was in Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s hard to tell from Wikipedia and other online sources at…
-
According to pablopicasso.org, the artist was living in occupied Paris during World War II when some Nazi soldiers invited themselves into his apartment. Seeing Guernica (above) displayed on a wall, one of them asked, “Did you do that?” “No, you did,” Picasso is said to have replied. I read that today. It must’ve been a…
-
Regarding the outpouring of love for Dolly Parton, here is a tweet from Eminem in which he posts a note he received from her on the occasion of his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: And, regarding “Huckabee swings, hits a fair ball,” here is a link to an interview, conducted by…
-
I’ve been mincing around for about a week, ever since I read this headline– “Mike Huckabee says Israeli settlers attacking West Bank homes are ‘terrorists’” –out of concern that me agreeing with Huckabee, Trump’s ambassador to Israel, about something outside the realm of arithmetic could be a sign that we are living in the end…
-
The above is from the New York Times’s coverage of last night’s US Senate primary in Alaska. Every candidate, from whatever party, is in the same field, and the top four finishers advance to the general election–no separate Democratic and Republican primaries in Alaska. As you can see, while the top four advance, the general…
-
Yesterday’s Twins game at the Field of Dreams site was only on Netflix, and they’re off today, so my television viewing hasn’t been much more than a half hour of “Jeopardy,” which alas and alack was enough to make me withdraw the fond forecast, made herein, that the end of the primary election campaign would…
