Monthly Archive: February 2022
POETS Day: The King of Sandusky, Ohio and RIP PJ O’Rourke
PJ O’Rourke wasn’t a favorite author. He was a doorway to understanding what thinking could be and what humor can do to the way you perceive the world.
Thursday Throughput: The Trailing Edge of Omicron Edition
Does Omicron waning mean that COVID restrictions were wrong all the time and we damaged our country for nothing?
An Interesting Development in the San Francisco School Board
A backlash against a San Francisco school board that was more interested in performative displays than actually doing the job a school board is elected to do.
Maybe Culpa: Adventures In Outrage Email
The email stylings of Neil Young, Whoopie Goldberg, Joe Rogan, Clay Travis, and Joy Ried on the pressing issues of the day
Wednesday Writs: DNA, Databases, & Incriminating Sexual Assault Victims
The San Francisco Police Department crime lab had been using the database to “attempt to subsequently incriminate” victims of rape and sexual assault, a practice he called “legally and ethically wrong.”
P.J. O’Rourke (1947-2022)
Today, while the news circulated, I saw libertarians, conservatives and liberals all citing P.J. O’Rourke’s work and quoting his best lines.
Durham Filing: Read It For Yourself
The long-running investigation filed a motion that set social media on fire. But what is actually in the Durham filing?
Top 10 Films of 2021: A Funny, Sometimes Infuriating, Year At The Movies
No matter how I came to these top 10 films of 2021, whether through the big or small screen, I thought it was a good year at the movies.
Accounting Firm Mazars Cuts Ties With Trump Organization: Read It For Yourself
Citing that the information from which it had based services on “contain material discrepancies” accounting firm Mazars is distancing itself from the Trump Organization.
Of Phil Donahue and Joe Rogan: Leaning into the Shrug and Carrying On
It is entirely possible to highlight the shortcomings the cancel culture approach without becoming a fan of The Joe Rogan Experience
A Proposal for the 28th Amendment
I don’t expect something even remotely resembling these 28th Amendment reforms will ever happen, but I thought you might find it interesting at least.
