by Jonathan | Aug 16, 2024 | Short Takes
…would consider this news. It’s not even on All Things Considered
by Jonathan | Aug 11, 2024 | Short Takes
Expect to hear this number repeatedly for the next several weeks. Ds will latch onto it. https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference
by Jonathan | Dec 18, 2023 | Short Takes
Arlington’s Confederate Memorial offers a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery,” according to a report prepared by a commission set up in response to that legislation. The report notes that an...
by Jonathan | Dec 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
We’re not anywhere near that close. The reports of fusion putting out more power than it draws in is a selective of the facts. As Wired explains: …researchers said they got as much energy out as their laser fired at the experiment—a massive, long-awaited achievement....
by Jonathan | Nov 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Earlier this year I began ever-so-slowly working my way through Les Miserables. The first section is devoted to the story of Monseigneur Bienvenu1, the bishop who will later give Jean Valjean some silver — the only place you see Bienvenu in the musical. But in...