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Friday, October 30, 2020

Did The Hunter Biden Laptop Come From China?

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 The election season is nearly over, thank heavens, but I guess I shall throw one more story for it out there, one I really did not expect a...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Open Thread

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My friends,  If you post endless copies of off-topic news articles and list of corona virus statistics to my substantive posts, I will simpl...
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Sunday, October 25, 2020

No Bumper Crop in 2020

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We took a trip this weekend, driving 180 miles each way on I-5 through Oregon and Washington State.  We kept our eyes peeled for bumper stic...
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An Irony About Interest Rates And Income Distribution

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 It has long been a truism of economics that high interest rates were favored by wealthy capitalist lenders against poor borrowers, with suc...
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

Abolish The Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence (ODNI)

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 A sign that this entity should be abolished, and I mean really gone, done in, not with its parts redistributed to other entities, is that i...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020

“I don't know about the two gentlemen you mentioned."

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Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon join a long list of people Donald Trump doesn't know about. Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas "I don't ...

No More Concerts From Keith Jarrett

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 I have just read that jazz pianist Keith Jarrett will not be performing live any more, indeed has not done so for some time.  He had two st...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The Period Of Short Term Memory

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 The election is two weeks from today.  When I took an into psych course over half a century ago, I was taught in it that two weeks is the p...
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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Why Does MbS Want Hllary Clinton's Emails?

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 In yesreday's Washington Post David Ignatius reports in a column about serious efforts by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Stealing Signs

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 I know this is a widespread basically trivial matter, but since I had posted earlier about all of the BLM signs on my block (including at o...
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Monday, October 12, 2020

In The Face Of Total Turbulence, Go Totally Conventional For The Nobel Prize

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 I have noted in various places that I could not make a forecast this year on the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of ...
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Saturday, October 10, 2020

When did Israel Become "America's Best Ally"?

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 In the recent US Vice Presidential debate, the current US VP, Mike Pence dropped a throaway line that until nobody has noticed until now. H...
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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Voting in a Time of Covid: A Question about Judicial “Originalism”

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The originalist theory of legal interpretation holds that judges, in reviewing the implementation of a statute, should be guided by the “pla...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

"Papa Haydn" or "Papa Bach"

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 So a cultural diversion from all the current shouting.  Was it "Papa Haydn" or "Papa Bach"? And if the latter, which on...
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Open Thread

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Spreadipus Rex seems to be suggesting that he deliberately infected himself and a whack of other people with the Covid "as your leader....
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