I like to subscribe to a number of magazines in solid, paper form. I read them mostly in the evenings with a cat on my lap, usually Jose. Sunday night I was reading the long article in the April 7 New Yorker about John Thune. Since...
This is the grave of Jack Valenti. Born in 1921 in Houston, Valenti grew up in the relatively small Italian American community there. Not so many immigrants moved to the.
I wish to offer the following dictum: However stupid you think Donald Trump is, he is stupider than that. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump We have massive Financial Deficits with China,.
It is slowly dawning on people in denial that Donald Trump really is a huge dumbshit who cannot comprehend the concept of a positive-sum exchange and has his policies implemented by barely post-adolescent incels from the vice president's group chats: More pain appears to be in...
The nominees for the 2025 Hugo award were announced earlier today, and I am pleased to announce that my book, Track Changes: Selected Reviews has been nominated in the Best.
As Trump crushes the value of your 401(k), remember that he also wants to separate as many people as possible from their Social Security benefits: Office closures, staffing and service.
Alex Ovechkin has broken Wayne Gretzky's NHL goal record: Alex Ovechkin scores career goal #895 setting the NHL record, the entire bench clears to celebrate[image or embed]— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) April 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM Ovechkin also did it in the same number of games,...
Bad mojo at the US Naval Academy. Maya Angelou’s seminal autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and books on the Holocaust were included on the Navy’s list of 381.
Something future historians will puzzle over at length is how the only real achievement of the first Trump administration -- and it was a gigantic one -- morphed very quickly.
This is the grave of Elizabeth Taylor. Born in London in 1932, Elizabeth Taylor was American. Her father was the art dealer Francis Taylor and her mother was the stage actress Sara Sothern. They were big time socialites doing their art in that city and they...
Damon Poeter posted the following comment to my post yesterday morning: [Quoting post] As I was saying yesterday, that’s it. There isn’t anything else going on here other than that.
Three election cycles after the last time a party instituted tariffs on anything like a scale of the Trump taxes, that party (which at the time of their enactment had.