I’m not going to get in the way. This story speaks for itself: I’ll only add that I found Francine Christoph’s story to be both a reminder of the evil of which human individuals and societies are capable, and a glorious rebuke to those then and now who would urge us to surrender to our yetzer hara.
Eric Cantor Is Still A Putz
Today in the Great Grey Lady [no longer of] 43rd St. former assistant GOP Crazytown basketball player-coach Eric Cantor decided to pose as one of the great compromisers in his eulogy to his former nominal GM, John Boehner. The putzitude? Well, here’s a sample: During President Obama’s first two years in office, his party controlled the …
Easy Money
Bill Kristol, on August 18, 2015: Me, the next day: I should have had a broader view of course. Any encomium from Bill Kristol is like a touch from Jesus’s dumber younger brother.* Maybe not the kid’s college fund, but sweet FSM I should have bet the holiday gift money on the under for Walker’s candidacy, fer …
Apropos Of Not Much
Picked up a Terry Pratchett off my paperback shelf today pretty much at random — The Nightwatch, one of the Vimes strand. It’s one of my less-read ones, meaning maybe twice, possibly even three times, but not more. I just idly flipped it open and looked over the first couple of pages,,,and came to this little …
Bows In The Hood
Here’s something to wash away the taste of last night’s DerpFest extraordinaire. From the NPR story on Black Violin: Kevin Sylvester says that when most people see a 6-foot-2-inch, 260-pound black man, they don’t expect him to also be a classically trained violinist. A recent exchange with a woman in an elevator, when he …
I’m Glad We’ve Got That Straightened Out
“America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely,” Rubio said, talking about climate change. “But America is not a planet.” *** Pluto for Science Advisor! Seriously — I can’t even… Potential presidents? I’m not sure these people can be trusted around metal cutlery. That is all. (Open thread) ***[This image should …
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Everything Old Is New Again — John Rogers Is Always Right Edition
Top line from today’s New York Times/CBS poll of the Republican presidential primary: The proportion of Republican voters favoring Mr. Carson rose to 23 percent from 6 percent in the previous CBS News poll, which was taken just before the first televised Republican debate in early August. Over that same period, Mr. Trump made modest gains, …
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