Doesn’t look like it. Charlie Kirk is a conservative activist and talk-radio host who embraces election lies and promotes false conspiracy theories on a variety of topics include masks and vaccines. While not a Republican Party official or office-holder, he associates with the party, and they [...]
Archive for October, 2021
October 26th, 2021 - 3:05 pm § in Politics
Do Republicans know how to draw a line against political violence?
Who deserved a Nobel Prize, Ayn Rand or Toni Morrison?
Toni Morrison got a Nobel Prize, Ayn Rand didn’t, despite being more influential. That wasn’t decisive. Rand was a smart, serious, thinker; no question about that. (Bio here; profile here.) She wrote The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which inspired generations of young people to beco[...]
October 26th, 2021 - 12:18 am § in Misc.
Should parents decide what their children learn?
THIS ISSUE MAY DECIDE VIRGINIA’S 2021 GOVERNOR’S ELECTION. A GOP ad features a mother whose son called a novel about slavery “disgusting.” Its author won a Nobel Prize. Read story here. Image: This 1867 painting was inspired by Margaret Garner’s story, which inspired To[...]
October 25th, 2021 - 11:45 pm § in Misc.
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October 25th, 2021 - 8:34 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
China will freeze in the dark before it buys Australian coal again
China has an energy crisis. To be more specific, China has a coal shortage. Australia has lots of coal, but China doesn’t want it, even though its lights are going out. Beijing is throwing a hissy fit. A year ago, it blocked imports of Aussie coal because “after Canberra backed a call fo[...]
October 25th, 2021 - 2:57 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Portrait of a thief
This attractive woman leaning on a fancy car isn’t a model posing for a car ad. She’s a criminal, and bought the car with proceeds from a fraud scheme. (Read story here.) Back in 2014, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (how do newspapers come up with such names?) lauded her as a hard-working b[...]
How gross, vile, and dumb is Donny Trump Jr.?
Shooting an elephant, cutting off its tail, and gloating at a camera was gross. (Here.) Claiming Democrats hoped Covid-19 would come to America and “kill millions of people” in order to “end Donald Trump’s streak of winning” (here) was more vile than gross, but I’[...]
Can Halloween candy kill?
Sure, if the psychopath down the street laces it with strychnine. But that aside, can you overdose on it? How much would kill you? The American Chemical Society calculates 262 “fun-sized” candy bars or 1,627 pieces of candy corn will deep-six the “average” person. What is &[...]
October 25th, 2021 - 3:24 am § in Misc.
How to raise your odds in the home buying lottery
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner This article isn’t about being marooned on a raft, out of sight of land, in a typhoon. But that’s what today’s real estate market feels li[...]
It’s legal reckoning time for the Charlottesville neo-Nazis
In Charlottesville, harassment became violence, then injury and death, and now a big lawsuit. Lawyers bankrupted Idaho white supremacist Richard Butler (bio here), bulldozed his Aryan Nations compound, and converted it to a peace park (details here). Now, lawyers are going after the organizers of th[...]