Monthly Archives: January 2019

Mass Movement

January 29, 2019 – 12:53 pm

News from North Korea: North Koreans ordered to produce impossible amount of human manure every day to help save agriculture: report How much is that “impossible amount” of poop that each North Korean is supposed to provide? A hundred kilograms — far more than the average North Korean’s total body weight. Per day. At first […]

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The Inmates, Running The Asylum

January 28, 2019 – 2:05 pm

With yet another hat-tip to Bill Keezer, here’s a therapeutic video.    

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You Can’t Have It Both Ways

January 26, 2019 – 11:56 pm

Former Federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has a new item at NRO on the Roger Stone indictment. He makes an obvious but worth-repeating point about the “process crimes” Stone is charged with, which have to to an investigation into his efforts to find out what Wikileaks might have on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign. Mr. […]

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“Health”

January 24, 2019 – 4:00 pm

New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has just signed into law a bill called the Reproductive Health Act. (You can read it here.) The principal effects of the bill are a) to remove all mention of abortion from the New York State penal code; b) to permit licensed heath-care practitioners to conduct abortions; and c) to […]

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A Life Of Slime

January 23, 2019 – 11:10 pm

I don’t often link to The Atlantic, but this is worth your time: everything you need to know about the hagfish.

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Russell Baker, 1925-2019

January 23, 2019 – 10:33 pm

I’ve just learned that Russell Baker, the longtime reporter and columnist for the New York Times, has died at the age of 93. I was a fan. I read his Observer column without fail, and have several of his books. He was a wonderful writer — graceful, witty, and piercingly but unostentatiously intelligent — and […]

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What Should The Right Want?

January 21, 2019 – 9:57 pm

Tucker Carlson rang in the New Year with a controversial monologue on the failure of American government to address a fundamental problem of modernity: the breakdown of families, and the growing hopelessness of those who are neither intractably poor nor insouciantly rich. Unlike nearly every other “conservative” today, however, he spread the blame around, heaping […]

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Stop The World, I Want To Get Off

January 18, 2019 – 6:35 pm

Here’s the perfect gift for Mom: a vibrator on a necklace. An ad for the product says “Created by a woman to spark both conversations and feelings of empowerment”, while the online blurb refers to the object’s “forward-looking approach”. How, exactly, are these conversations supposed to go? HE: “Hi, nice to meet you. I see […]

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This

January 17, 2019 – 9:54 pm

Magnificent. (Thanks to the indefatigable JK for the link.)

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The Demi-Savants

January 13, 2019 – 11:32 pm

Please forgive me for the scanty output here of late — I am deeply distracted with work and family matters, so much so that I have had very little to say. But I will direct you to two sharp posts at The Orthosphere, by J.M. Smith and Thomas Bertonneau, on the nature of the frustrated […]

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Build The Damn Wall

January 11, 2019 – 3:08 pm

Mr. Trump, don’t give in.

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Zeitgeist

January 10, 2019 – 11:19 am

Netflix has a new hit movie: Birdbox. The idea is a simple one: there are things in the world that, if clearly seen, are so radically discomfiting that those who see them are driven to suicide. So everyone puts on a blindfold. It’s a smashing success. I wonder why?

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Swamp 1, American People 0

January 9, 2019 – 7:11 pm

I’m back in the States now, and catching up on backlogs of both news and work. (The latter isn’t going to leave me much opportunity for brooding and writing for a while, I’m afraid.) The new Democrat House is in charge. Among the most depressing consequences of that gloomy fact is that the ongoing investigations […]

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Homeward Bound

January 4, 2019 – 5:36 pm

This weekend, after a month in Vienna, the lovely Nina and I are heading home. We’ll be back in the States by Sunday evening. It’s been a fine time — Vienna is always a nice place to be, and we welcomed a new grandchild into our expanding extended family — but it’s time to get […]

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2019 – 10:28 am

And away we go, friends. I have no idea what 2019 will bring, but I doubt it will be boring. Keep your powder dry! I wish you all good health and good fortune, and I thank you all again for reading and commenting.

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