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Monthly Archives: August 2018

Racist to the core

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, is a black Republican. In my humble opinion, that’s a little like being a Jewish Nazi, a sign either of overweening cynicism or overwhelming stupidity. That being said, it appears Scott, unlike a certain Supreme Court justice whose name shall go unmentioned, retains a shred, as miniscule as it […]

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Chris Mattie for AG

Sunday, August 12, 2018

This columnby old friend Bill Curry is well worth reading, but I especially want to endorse his take on the AG race: It’s partly our aged, inbred party machines. In the three-way Democratic primary for Attorney General, Chris Mattei, a clear progressive, faces State Senator Paul Doyle and State Rep. William Tong, two rare Democrats so […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, August 10, 2018

This is the last night of our annual Vermont vacation. For the entire time we’ve been here, Vermont has been taunting us. The sun comes out for a while, and then it rains, and before you know it, the sun is back out. I was driving up the mountain on Route 100A up by Calvin […]

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Book report, continued

Monday, August 6, 2018

A few posts ago I wrote about my reaction to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, which I was in the process of reading. I’m still reading it, since it’s fairly thick, and I’m on vacation. Anyway, I have another bone to pick, and I think it illustrates anew Pinker’s both siderism and the fact that he […]

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