The Rectification of Names

  Cast party at the Waffle House, via New York Times . Joh...

  Seeing some terror in the ranks over this poll of six battleground states issued by Washington Post  (with the assistance of the Schar Sc...

Joe Biden suggesting Israel pull back rather than permanently occupy the conquered territories in 1973 , when he was a 30-year-old freshman ...

  The drunkenness of Noah, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, via Wikipedia . Donald Trump:  I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS,...

Recycled from a couple of old posts at the Substack :  

There's this telling moment in the Ross Douthat interview of Senator J.D. Vance (" What J.D. Vance Believes "), where Va...

  David F. Brooks on " The Sins of the Educated Class ": When I was young, I was a man on the left. In the early 1980...

Over at the Xitter, Dinesh D'Souza is really on drugs now: No, Dinesh, it's a 1787 document. See the "We the people...

  Drawing by Lin Rui for Renmin Ribao/The People's Daily,  When Trump starts ranting about rigged trials and the "weaponized...

From the Livre d'Or des Voyages  of Louis Mainard, 1890, via picryl.com . Déjà vu all over again? Biden (the day after the guilty ve...

  I get it about the reading disability, but he should be able to ask one of his lawyers www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... [image or em...

Mother Teresa by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States It’s a disgrace. Mother Teresa could not beat those...

5/27: Updated version at the Substack I hate the hypercorrect "whom" in that headline: a headline is a truncated sentence, and su...

Larry Thomas and Bret Mendenhall in Uwe Boll's 2008  Postal , via ...

Image via Finescale Modeler . Trump's mind going totally blank, you really have to watch it:  I don’t know if Trump’s teleprompte...

TV lawyers keep fretting about how key witness Michael Cohen is a noted liar—he's even got a felony conviction for it—so juries might h...

  Village of Atatra, Northern Gaza, October 21, 2023. Satellite image by Maxar Technologies, via AP .  A "centrist" Israeli pa...

  Tips of 15mm artillery shells and howitzer on the Israel-Lebanon border. Photo by Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images from Axios . Activi...

This looks like the development I've been imagining for the last five months among the Israeli public, as the hostages become more and m...

It's now possible to embed Bluesky posts! I guess it has been for a while, but I haven't given much thought to posting threads here...