Russian President Vladimir Putin is incapable of shame or embarrassment, I’m afraid. He’s certainly not going to admit any guilt for supporting the murderous vandals who managed to kill 298 people on Malaysia Air Flight 17 with a sophisticated anti-aircraft missile. Nor is he going to assist investigators by giving them a clear path to …
The claim about the current influx of mothers and children to the US from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador which infuriates me the most is the one which says they’re bringing diseases into this country. Not true. While some of the kids are indeed ill, they don’t have anything exotic or unexpected, said Dr. Mark …
I went out to the driveway this afternoon, fear and trepidation in my heart. I was sure the car wouldn’t start, simply because it hadn’t been driven long enough after I got it jumped last night. I was wrong. It started right up and purred along as though it had never run down. Phew.
A neighbor came over with some apple bananas from her backyard tree and advised me that my car tail lights were on. I can’t understand how they got left on, but since she came over at 7:30pm and I got home and out of the car around 1:30pm, the battery was well and truly run …
What does it tell us that there are still plenty of Osmonds around but we're all out of Ramones? — Mark Evanier (@evanier) July 13, 2014
Israel equating Hamas’s rockets to the IDF’s air strikes is the purest form of sophistry: “a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.” There have been at least 145 Palestinian deaths since this all began on Tuesday. There have been zero Israeli deaths. Who the hell are the Israelis trying to kid? …
Is you is or is you ain’t insured for health care? Judging from the latest chart from Gallup, a whole lot of Americans are now answering “I is!” Via Talking Points Memo
I don’t ordinarily pay much attention to the NBA, but the news today that LeBron James has decided to return to Cleveland to play for his hometown (and first professional) team was unavoidable. I admit to being astonished. It’s not often a superstar leaves the place where he’s had the most success (James won two …
We all know that state legislatures are often the stepping stones for ambitious pols who want to go work at the Capitol Building in DC (3 of 7 Democrats running this year for US District One in Honolulu are State Senators or Representatives; another 3 are City Councilmembers). It’s often useful to point out how …
Could there have been two more opposite games in one tournament? Yesterday the Germans destroyed the Brazilians 7-1, while today the Argentines had to win on penalty kicks after the match ended in a scoreless tie. I don’t know much about South American politics, but I imagine that the idea of Argentina playing for the …