Really. Check out the last comment in this post. It’s one of two, so far.
Should I complain to them? Who would be doing this for them, and why?
Really. Check out the last comment in this post. It’s one of two, so far.
Should I complain to them? Who would be doing this for them, and why?
Really. Check out the last comment in this post. It’s one of two, so far.
Should I complain to them? Who would be doing this for them, and why?
Archaelogists have discovered evidence that some people in the borderlands of England may be descended from Moors from northern Africa, Roman soldiers brought over to guard Hadrian’s wall. One more interesting ingredient to the mix of Picts, Saxons et al.
Also a little ironic, considering that many of these people are the so-called Scots-Irish who settled much of Appalachia and the American south, with its slavery and anti-miscegany laws.
Ralph Nader has violated campaign finance laws. Somehow it’s all the fault of big corporations.
Ralph Nader has violated campaign finance laws. Somehow it’s all the fault of big corporations.
Ralph Nader has violated campaign finance laws. Somehow it’s all the fault of big corporations.
…dated today. But it looks frighteningly like the 1930s again in Europe.
A meteorite hit a home in New Zealand. Nobody hurt.
I’ve run a half-staff flag at the site for the past week. I’m removing it now, it being a week since the (physical) passing of President Reagan.
If one mourns too long, the mourning loses significance. It’s time to just remember, move on, and continue to build the city on the hill that he envisioned.
There are still a few people attempting to fight against the now-prevailing wisdom that Reagan ended the Cold War through his policies, claiming that he just had the good luck to be president when it happened. Now, of course one can never know for sure what the causes were, but I find it interesting that some people are determined to continue to attempt to prove that it wasn’t Reagan’s doing. I wonder why they have such a powerful emotional investment in that?
They should consider something–if there were a good case to be made for their position, then it should have persuaded many of those on the fence, and perhaps even some who originally thought that it was Reagan’s doing, to change their opinion, but I don’t see that happening.
From James Lileks, to Bill Whittle, Matt Welch, Roger Simon and others, many people this past week have confessed that they thought Reagan was a dunce at the time, but they’ve seen the light now. This kind of commentary has abounded in comments sections as well. But I haven’t seen a single post or comment anywhere to the effect that someone thought Reagan was great at the time, but now they realize he was an idiot who had nothing to do with defeating the Soviet Union.
I wonder why that is?
[Update a few minutes later]
And yes, I do realize that I’ve just motivated them to start leaving me spurious comments with unverifiable claims about how brilliant they thought that Reagan was at the time, but that now they’re older and wiser.
I point this out preemptively to make their claims all the more ridiculous, since none have appeared spontaneously heretofore.