I was gonna do a piece about Covid’s origin, as it’s been in the news again and readers have asked me to address it, but I’m putting it off for a week. Because the Pedro Gonzalez thing is stuck in my craw. Disclaimer: I have no idea where my “craw” is, but if it’s where I assume, it’s a highly uncomfortable location for a blockage. Last week Breitbart.com doxxed a guy simply because he supports DeSantis. Pedro Gonzalez, politics editor at Chronicles and a former Trump supporter who switched his allegiance, saw his private messages splashed all over the internet in a hit piece ...
These days, everybody—by which I mean every person who considers himself intelligent and educated—must have an opinion about everything. It would be socially irresponsible, even antisocial, not ...
Being a Wednesday-morning columnist is a good gig, except the day after Election Day when nobody will be interested in whatever statistics I’d researched on Monday. So, having no clue how the ...
Two months ago, I wrote about my hometown and its so-called Mexican problem. I made the point that, generally speaking, most white and Asian Angelenos are okay with the ...
In the early 1970s, Paramount decided to make a feature film based on the Star Trek TV series. An early story idea was presented by the legendarily irascible writer Harlan ...
What part do truth and evidence play in our beliefs? A larger part in ours than in those of others, of course, for we are, or at least consider ourselves to be, more rational ...
Months of egging on the mob in Ferguson, Missouri by the Obama Administration, the Democratic Party, and the national media in order to goose turnout in this month's midterm ...
In case you"ve been on vacation in an Internet-less corner of the world, you already know that Russia has a military presence in Crimea. And if you"re on Twitter or spend ...
What can we learn from the media and government frenzy to railroad George Zimmerman, a campaign that continues even after his acquittal, with the Obama Administration now ...
An article of faith has many first drafts. We struggle to find a manner to say what must be said while saying it within the law. We know legal sanctioning of the illegal ...
Nowadays the first step to take after a school shooting, far from mourning or otherwise feeling sorry for the families whose children were killed by a maniac, is calling for new ...
Is America exceptional? Once upon a time, hardly anyone dissented from the idea that the USA was different from all other nations. The "exceptional" sobriquet made the ...
When James Eagan Holmes had been in custody for hours and the sun broke over the tragic scene of a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, the typical recriminations began. ...
Immigrants in the early 20th century celebrated US citizenship. The threat of illness, death, and separation from their wives and children failed to deter these Europeans who fled ...
“Take back the street.” The “99%er’s.” “The movement.” The level of self-delusion among participants and newsreaders in this country is ...
China’s rating agency has just downgraded the US credit rating from A+ to A, citing America’s inability to reduce its deficit by four trillion dollars over five years. A ...
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