The Rectification of Names

Maine woods, photo by George Wuerthner for The Rewilding Institute . I've been sitting on the first paragraphs here for quite a while, n...

Karoline Leavitt's response to the reporter's question as to how the White House decided Jared Kushner's involvement in al...

Wuhan wet market (not, I think, the one where the coronavirus emerged). Photo by Arend Kuester via UCLA Newsroom . I was interested in findi...

A peculiar bunch of statistics that has been making the rounds in the ongoing moral panic over the Democratic Socialists of America, w...

Eugène Delacroix, 1831, La Bataille de Nancy, depicting the death of Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the hands of the armies of Lorraine and...

  That image you've seen that makes the Obama Presidential Center look ...

The "replica Trump arch" at the Great American State Fair in the Nationa...

  Margaret Mead Green in Theodore Roosevelt Park, Manhattan, with the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation loomi...

  Video of the 2003 recording, released three years after Cash's death, with lip-synching tribute cameos by a host of mostly enga...

So I bet a lot of you thought the official party autopsy of the 2024 presidential election, released on Thursday, was probably...

John Bull farting merrily in the face of a portrait of King George III in r...

Note: Revised this quite a bit for the Substack version , too lazy to redo it here, ...

Michigan's notorious old 14th District (2013-2023), drawn after the 2010 census to squeeze two districts' worth of Democratic voter...

  From Don Moynihan's Substack , urging folks to submit official comments to the Federal Register on the proposed work requirements rule...

  Saw a Bluesky post yesterday morning alleging that the "exchange of fire" at the Washington Hilton Saturday night between ...

Seeing a lot of headshaking over the President's Easter message,  which gives up the traditional "Happy Easter, even to the haters ...

Portrait of a bullet by Doug Mills, The New York Times, via Reddit . ...

Graphic by Thomas Bordeaux and Rosa de Acosta,  CNN , based on satellite imagery from March 3, showing extensive damage to buildings at the ...

That was pretty interesting, rhetorically speaking, from Secretary of War (as you know, the title is his idea, not mine) Hegseth in yester...

  So we may be on the brink of fighting our second war with Iran in eight months. Or maybe not, who can say? "We'll s...