Monthly Archives: November 2021

Wow, I Wonder What This Button Does

November 29, 2021 – 10:10 pm

Here we go: With the help of a supercomputer running AI software, boffins at an American university have created a new life-form they call “xenobots”, which are are tiny, motile blobs of tissue made from frog stem-cells. Under the guidance of the AI — which, as AIs tend to do these days, took off on […]

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Winter Is Coming

November 29, 2021 – 6:58 pm

Wellfleet Harbor today, in a late-November mood:

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Fair And Balanced

November 29, 2021 – 3:15 pm

Please watch — this might not be up for long.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 25, 2021 – 12:04 pm

This day, my favorite holiday of the year, is consecrated to remembering the vital importance of gratitude. Yes, things are not going well in America right now, but the story is far from over, and the strength of our good people is undiminished. Dum spiro spero!

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The Roche Limit

November 21, 2021 – 11:00 pm

People are starting to peel away from the Democratic Party as it falls deeper into the gravity well of the Left Singularity. (Tulsi Gabbard is a prominent and recent example, but there are many others.) If readers will forgive me for saying “I told you so”, in a post four years ago I used an […]

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How Did They Know?

November 21, 2021 – 1:23 am

From 1969. Lyrics here.

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Justice For Kyle!

November 19, 2021 – 7:36 pm

A splendid result in Kenosha today: Kyle Rittenhouse fully exonerated. The Left is writhing in fury, of course — which is yet another example of the fundamental, axiomatic incommensurability of the competing worldviews fighting for supremacy here in the tottering West. Our side sees a brave young man with a virile and virtuous impulse to […]

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The Religious Stance, Cont’d

November 18, 2021 – 7:39 pm

Following on last week’s post, here’s an essay by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José H. Gomez, called Reflections on the Church and America’s New Religions. The essay begins: An elite leadership class has risen in our countries that has little interest in religion and no real attachments to the nations they live in or […]

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Let’s Go!

November 16, 2021 – 3:14 pm
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The Religious Stance

November 11, 2021 – 11:06 pm

I’ve been saying for a long time that what we are up against is a religion. (In 2017 I made the case contra Bill Vallicella, who was reluctant to apply the term.) At the very least, I think it’s helpful to borrow a technique from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, who coined the term “the intentional […]

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Biden: Build Back Better, By Bearing Kipling’s “Burden”

November 10, 2021 – 10:43 pm

Ann Coulter reads the Build Back Better bill. Here.

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What’s In A Name?

November 8, 2021 – 1:34 pm

Way back in 2006, I noted that when there’s a concept out there that’s socially uncomfortable, whatever word we use to refer to it soon becomes freighted with the underlying awkwardness of the thing itself, so we have to discard that word and replace it with a new one. Before long the new word becomes […]

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

November 3, 2021 – 10:41 pm

Well, that was fun. Glenn Youngkin beat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, and various other Democrats around the country, and Democrat propositions, were defeated. It was nice to see all those folks on the other side wailing and gnashing their teeth, and blaming the whole thing on ‘racism’ (which is pretty funny, given, say, the victory […]

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