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Was saddened to hear last week that my old friend John Feinstein had died. I had known him from masters swimming, and from the late 90's...

It's time to give credit to the people who are actually responsible for influencing the electorate. In no particular order: Jill Biden, ...

In 1891, eleven Italian-American men were lynched by a mob for allegedly having killed the New Orleans chief of police, David Hennessy. Th...

I've written previously about the inverse correlation between virtue and virtue signaling . I'm not using the expression in its usua...

Today I had to bring a bunch of beer bottles to the return center at a Stop & Shop in a nearby town. (The one in my town doesn't acc...

Six weeks ago I wrote a post about how Derek Chauvin was being viewed through the wrong lens, one of racism rather than sociopathy. The main...

It didn't get much publicity over here, but Vera Lynn, 103, died yesterday. She was the British singer who popularized  We'll Meet A...

In the previous post I pointed out that Amy Cooper was almost certainly a sociopath. Yesterday the NY Post ran an article, Central Park ...

America's attention for the past two weeks has been completely riveted by the George Floyd killing, just as for the previous two months ...

These personalities are defined by Wikipedia as: [C]haracterized by dramatic, overly emotional, or unpredictable thinking or behavior or i...

In the past few months there's been a fair amount of contempt directed at Greta Thunberg. I understand the sentiment: why should have to...

The NY Post just ran this article  about Reeaz Khan: The relevant excerpt: The man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 92-ye...

Two days ago an anonymous commenter accused me of biasing my opinion of Donald Trump for political reasons. He said:  Trump is a sociopath...

When Elizabeth Warren's claims of Indian ancestry first became public in 2012, I found her subterfuge funny -- if mildly despicable -- a...

Joe Biden has gotten some bad publicity the past couple days for his peculiarly Bidenesque response to the question of how he would handle t...

One strong correlation that's become increasingly apparent over the past few years is that the most rabid Trump-haters tend to be those ...

I recently had an argument with a former classmate about people who have a hard time telling members of other races apart. (Specifically, th...

Scott & Bailey is a British police drama available on Amazon Prime. I told a friend the show was originated by a woman, written by two ...

The difference between the higher- and lower-IQed is that the higher are generally capable of seeing patterns more clearly, and grasping mor...

The extent to which Trump views himself as the CEO of America became even clearer recently, when he offered to buy Greenland from the Danes....