Dueling 'Cognitive Decline' Narratives, and the plain truth of the June 27...
I’m an 80s teenager, now in my mid 50s. It seems crazy to me sometimes, and I can only imagine how it seems to a much younger voter: America’s current Presidential Election is between an 81 year old...
View ArticleBiden dares Trump to debate: "I hear you're free on Wednesdays."
(11am Eastern update: Biden and Trump have both accepted a CNN debate on June 27. TBD if they can agree on the exact terms.)President Biden unleashed Dark Brandon this morning!xDonald Trump lost two...
View ArticleThis trial is hell for Trump, and at age 77 he might not survive it
Donald Trump’s estranged and highly insightful niece, the psychologist Mary Trump, has said and written much about her sociopathic uncle and his mental state. Herbookis quite something to read. And she...
View ArticleWarning: Polling is real. It holds information. And Joe Biden needs a...
I work in an information-heavy professional field. The world of data data data and more data, team-shared spreadsheets in cloud storage, monthly and quarterly metrics, predictive modeling, and all of...
View ArticleMy 10 Favorite YouTube Comments on Sen. Katie Britt's Weird-A-F Kitchen Rebuttal
As we all know, President Joe Biden delivered a superb State of the Union speech last night. There was a GOP rebuttal. I didn’t watch it. Few did. But the buzz around it got me to check it out this...
View ArticlePAY UP! Appeals court rules Trump has to post the full $454,000,000.00 bond!
Appeals court judge Anil Singh did the justice system a solid today — ruling that, no, Trump, you can’t pull a “lemme just pay $100M because I’m so rich.” The bond amount is $454 Million and Trump has...
View ArticleHurricane Lee has blown up to CAT 4. Slight risk of East Coast landfall Sept...
Just a Thursday evening update on Hurricane Lee. It intensified FAST. From 80mph at dawn to 105mph at 11am to 130mph (Category 4) as of 5pm Eastern time. Lee may become a Category 5 overnight or...
View ArticleWell, well: now Trump reframes Big Lie / Stolen Election as just "my opinion"...
Writing for the Washington Post, Aaron Blake pointed out an interesting development in what Trump is trying to sell to the public as he faces his next indictment package, the one about the “perfect...
View ArticleTrump Trials Stove Burner #3 (Jan 6) Heats Up: He got a "You are a Target"...
New news from CNN and elsewhere:Former President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he’s been informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he is a target of the criminal investigation into...
View ArticleCNN: July 4, 2023 was Earth's hottest day ever (recorded).
Gotta say — CNN takes a lot of criticism in recent months, much of it deserved. Trump Town Hall of infamy, an increase in MAGA-appeasing both-sides-ism, etc. But you know what else? Their climate...
View ArticleOn being "too old for this": June 13, Trump faces Miami Federal Court. June...
As a middle aged Gen-Xer, I thought it was surreal in Spring 2016, primary season, when the three major players for the US Presidency were so old. Hillary Clinton, then 68; Bernie Sanders, then 75; and...
View ArticleSuperb bio piece in The Atlantic: "Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?"
I just finished reading one of the best longer-form bio/political magazine pieces I’ve read in recent years. Elaina Plott Calabro, well done. “Marge” (her nickname among those who knew her back when)...
View ArticleNYC Covid: It's rampant, it's underreported, and it's eliciting...
Hi friends, thought I’d write an update from Brooklyn, and from the Northeast Tri-State area (“Tri-State” is loosely defined as the NY-NJ-CT region in which people live somewhat near NYC and can get to...
View ArticleAnne Applebaum: UKRAINE MUST WIN.
Anne Applebaum’s writing for The Atlantic has been superb these recent months, and her piece today really brings the Ukraine tragedy into a moral and strategic imperative: a victory for Ukraine is “the...
View ArticleMaking Our Kids Wear Masks: Where is the Off-Ramp?
Yesterday, we registered our pre-Kindergartener for the Summer 2022 season of outdoor day camp. There are dozens and dozens of such programs here in Brooklyn. We considered proximity, program content,...
View ArticleHopeful: NYC Covid cases have peaked, our Omicron wave is beginning to subside
I wrote a hopeful comment yesterday that I’d like to put up as a diary. The coming 1-2 months will be a nightmare for America’s healthcare system. Ed Yong of the Atlantic lays the case out in stark...
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CNN.com vs Foxnews.com, January 6 '22: Never a wider chasm than today.
Good morning. I’m avoiding Omicron/covid news for a couple of days, my kid’s at-home preschool class quarantine here (and spouse’s struggle to get any professional work done) is stressful enough....
View ArticleOmicron Overwhelm: Four reasons New York City has NO IDEA how many cases...
It happened so fast — just as experts warned it would. CDC reported yesterday that an estimated 73% of new Covid cases in America this past week are the Omicron variant. I want to write about what is...
View ArticleOmicron 100s of cases at Cornell. Christmas will be a Nationwide...
After almost a month of “Omicron is coming” stories… it’s here. And it’s about to spread everywhere as America’s families, the fully vaxxed and the unvaxxed, gather in person for Christmas 2021 next...
View ArticleWhy is CNN so invested in "VP Kamala Harris is failing" stories?
So there is a LOT happening in the world and a lot of it is difficult. But over at CNN they seem really interested in putting forth a narrative that Kamala Harris is flopping and failing. As if that’s...
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