“While you bleed to death.”
One of my readers has taken exception to the impeachment rhetoric overflowing since Wednesday’s announcement by Nancy Pelosi that the current president of the United States will be undergoing an … Continue reading
Telling the truth? Not to the best of his recollection
If anyone needed evidence for why America has a system of laws intended to hold the powers of State accountable for the job they are entrusted with performing for our … Continue reading
Buckley vs. Douthat — Intellectual vs. Intellectualist
This post will resonate mainly with those who are avid readers of the New York Times and, perhaps, with those who encounter the columns of Ross Douthat in that newspaper. … Continue reading
Sony, “The Interview”, and Civility — Mistaking Impertinence for Virtue
There’s rather a lot of self-importance being displayed by all of the people that Frank Bruni mentions this week in his column, who are “sanitizing” their on-line correspondence because Sony Pictures got hacked. “If … Continue reading
Something About Hillary
In response to the earnest Frank Bruni this week: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-hillary-2-0-would-be-hillary-xx.html It is fallacious to look at Mrs. Clinton as a woman who has scaled heights unknown to other women in America … Continue reading
Flowers from Kiev (reconsidered)
There is unnerving power in these photographs. These photographs by Anastasia Taylor-Lind were published in June in the New York Times. They are simple portraits of some of the protesters from February who participated in … Continue reading
Vladimir, Part 2
Not Your Grandfather’s Smart Phone How is the game different today? I would submit that America and Europe have been better at what seems to be squarely within the blind … Continue reading
Vladimir, Part 1
“Russian forces skillfully employed 21st-century tactics that combined cyberwarfare, an energetic information campaign and the use of highly trained special operation troops in its annexation of Crimea.” – New York … Continue reading
The Times we live in (no pun intended)
There’s a lot to say in a first post. It’s not possible to get it all in, of course, especially at this time of night. But the world, for someone … Continue reading
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