…does not make you a better person.
I’m reading a review copy of an interesting new book from Bob Zimmerman on the history of slavery in America. One of the points he makes is that one of the things that created the cultural environment for it was the nature of how the Cavaliers founded Virginia, with the class bias and denigration of physical labor they brought from England.
Now that Mueller is history, he’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
[Update late morning]
Democrats grudgingly admit that the Mueller testimony was a disaster.
[Update about noon]
The day the Resistance’s dreams died.
Our discussion from Sunday afternoon is now on line.
Things are about to get ugly.
This may be like Budapest in 1956, or Prague in 1968. How will we, and Britain, respond?
Was it malice, or ignorance? Given the level of his ignorance on so many subjects, I’m going to go with the latter.
Will he soon be the most popular leader in the world?
I had lunch with Iain Murray in DC a few weeks ago, who went to school with him. It will be interesting, if nothing else. I asked Iain if May was the worst PM since Chamberlain. “Lord North,” he replied.
[Update Tuesday morning]
With him seeming to be the next PM, the New York Sun is waiting for Boris Johnson.
[Update a couple minutes later]
From the third link:
When it comes to rhetoric and eloquence, he is the anti-Trump.
[Bumped]
[Late-morning update]
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
[Bumped again]
I don’t know where to start with this ignorant burning of a field of strawmen.
I just saw this tweet:
It reminded me of this old post I wrote in the early aughts. Here is the original, with comments at the time.
We continue to lose the giants of that generation.
[Update Tuesday morning]
Heh. “Perhaps the New York Times’ obit for Kraft was already written, as it curiously fails to explore the seething hotbed of sexism and white supremacy that was the early NASA, according to the latest reporting by the New York Times.“
[Update a few minutes later]
Eric Berger remembers an inspirational friend.
Per a commenter there, I’ve also been wondering if he had been hanging on to see the 50th anniversary, and then let go.
It strikes me that the fact that the asshat governor in San Juan is pro statehood is probably a big strike against the movement. I’ve long thought, since we lost the bases, that we should just give PR independence.