I generally avoid the city. The South Bay, with the resurgence of the space industry and many start ups, remains in better shape.
[Update late morning]
LA 2025: Welcome to America’s future.
I hope not.
Category Archives: History
Brian Wilson
RIP. From his home-town newspaper.
Eighty-One Years
The thanks we owe to the men who stormed the Normandy beaches and the leaders who made the extraordinarily difficult decision to send them is to ensure the civilization they saved remains the beacon of light and truth and is not worn away by neglect and contempt.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 6, 2025
I remember when I was nineteen my (veteran) mother saying, “I can’t believe it’s been thirty years.”
[Update a few minutes later]
The great crusade and the men who made it work.
On Black Voting Patterns
KJP is right on this one point.
There are better messengers on it, though, as noted there.
The Jews
Where have they gone, and where are they going?
[Update a few minutes later]
Hamas’s war against the Jews has come to America.
[Update a few more minutes later]
Did CNN cause the Boulder attack?
It didn’t help.
Harvard
FAFO:
This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) May 22, 2025
It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86
[Saturday-morning update]
Harvard is totally corrupted.
It’s unclear that it’s even salvageable.
Fracture Day
The five-year anniversary is coming up.
And don't forget. The five year anniversary of Fracture Day – June 5 2020 – is coming up.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) May 20, 2025
There were lots of lies before that of course, but that was the day that a gaggle of "public health" officials told us that in the middle of a supposedly deadly pandemic that required… https://t.co/sIGQs6umwg
Jake Tapper
…is why we can’t quit Stephen Glass.
Hard to believe that there was a time, however brief, that I thought that Jake Tapper was a reputable journalist. That he might bring a little class to CNN. Oh, well.
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) May 14, 2025
Trump’s America
The real reason Yale professors are leaving it.
The word “fascism” has lost all useful meaning.
Watergate
This is much, much bigger than that. It makes Watergate look like a jaywalking ticket.
[Friday-morning update]
The Democrats are starting to realize that their Biden nightmare is just beginning.