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2021
Looking around: France doubles down on nuclear energy; omicron in NYC and London; is Biden already a lame duck?original ↗
27 Dec 2021
26 Dec 2021
Sabbath musical delight, Christmas 1968 Apollo 8 edition: Mike Oldfield, “The Songs of Distant Earth”original ↗
25 Dec 2021
Cats and dogs lying together create flying pig moments: Islamist politician says “Israel is a Jewish state and will remain so”; UAE astronaut brings Israeli flag into spaceoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2021
COVID19 micro-update: omicron wave in UK, South Africa continues to show signs of milder disease course [UPDATE: confirmed by UK official report]original ↗
23 Dec 2021
Rampant sycophancy culture in CCP China: does that explain the affinity of so many US (il)liberals for it?original ↗
22 Dec 2021
Looking around: China’s economic house of cards; the Realpolitik behind Israel’s counterintuitive alliance with Azerbaijanoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2021
COVID19 micro-update: possible reason why omicron variant both more contagious and causing less severe diseaseoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2021
14 Dec 2021
#SignalBoost: FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff on wokebaggery as the 2nd Great Age of PC; Tom Knighton on the skeletons in CNN’s closetoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2021
Here, there, and everywhere: more hopeful omicron news; university “diversity” bureaucracy vs. actually helping disadvantaged studentsoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2021
Sabbath musical delight: in praise of Rod Argent, songwriter and keyboard virtuoso of The Zombiesoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2021
Looking Around: Tim Cook is Turtleboy Of The Week; Saule Omarova withdraws; nicknames within the 0bama administrationoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2021
Video: Genesis of the East German “Stasi” (Staatssicherheit, state security) in a nutshelloriginal ↗
6 Dec 2021
Eating jelly doughnuts during Chanukah: origin of the custom; “West Side Chanukah Story”; no, JFK did not say “I’m a jelly donut”original ↗
3 Dec 2021
Wiley academic journal “Higher Education Quarterly” published obvious hoax article, then retractsoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2021
Too fantastic for fiction? The strange tale of the Lebanese Shiite who passed as an Orthodox Jeworiginal ↗
1 Dec 2021
Here, there, everywhere: Battle history of the Maccabean revolt; Dr. Campbell sounds optimistic note on omicron variant; Dr. Mordechai Kedar on whether Iran could implodeoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2021
29 Nov 2021
28 Nov 2021
No, the Hindenburg wasn’t the biggest airship disaster in history: the USS Akron and the British R.101original ↗
27 Nov 2021
Sabbath musical delight: Gabriel Fauré, “Aprés un rêve” [after a dream], vocal original and piano arrangement by Percy Graingeroriginal ↗
26 Nov 2021
25 Nov 2021
Two must-see videos: (1) John Campbell on “the Japanese COVID miracle”; (2) Niall Ferguson on communism and fascism as (not-so-)strange bedfellows.original ↗
24 Nov 2021
Xmas fair killer rapped about hating Trump, supported BLM, antisemitic: will be memory-holed soonoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2021
Looking around: MSM disinformation campaign on the Rittenhouse acquittal; Kamala the Klueless to be replaced?original ↗
21 Nov 2021
“V-mail”: the ingenious way to drastically compress WW II-era Allied mail to and from servicemenoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2021
Follow the money: the NYT’s mercenary motives behind journalistic malpractice, from Walter Duranty to the “1619 project”original ↗
18 Nov 2021
Here, there, and everywhere: brokeback Times; non-woke University of Austin; VDH on why the Brahmandarins always projectoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2021
14 Nov 2021
10 Nov 2021
November 9: why some Germans call today’s date the “Schicksaltag der Deutschen” (Day of Fate of the Germans)original ↗
9 Nov 2021
Stranger than fiction (or is it?): one man’s journey from far-left terrorist to neo-Nazi ‚ and guess what stayed the same…original ↗
7 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021
Sabbath musical delight: J. S. Bach, “Ricercar in 6 voices” from The Musical Offering BWV 1079original ↗
30 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021
Looking around: possible coup against Chairman Xi?; How “Let’s Go Brandon” went viral; Vaccine mandate kabuki theateroriginal ↗
14 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021
9 Oct 2021
Stranger than fiction: the life of Beate Uhse, the female WW II pilot who became a pioneering “adult” entrepreneuroriginal ↗
8 Oct 2021
COVID19 update, October 4, 2021: is molnupiravir a game changer?; Accidental intravenous injection and myocarditis; brief Israel updateoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2021
Mildred Fish-Harnack, the only American to be executed by the Third Reich for involvement in the _German_ anti-Nazi undergroundoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
28 Sept 2021
Unrelated? Dr. Mordechai Kedar on Ibn Khaldun’s cyclical theory of history; Bill Whittle on what’s wrong with Boeingoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2021
COVID19 update, September 23, 2021: boosters; Denmark, the US, and the importance of establishing “bilateral trust”original ↗
23 Sept 2021
COVID19 micro-update, September 22, 2021: India and home care kits. Also: RIP Prof Angelo Codevillaoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2021