Episode 3: Arcade Fire
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Mueller’s Latest Indictments Show That ‘Witches’ Are Very Real
Earlier today the Grand Jury for the District of Columbia charged twelve Russian intelligence officers with conspiring “to gain unauthorized access (to ‘hack’) into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, steal documents from those computers, and stage ...
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EuroTrip
Dear Reader (Especially everyone who got ripped off ordering that giant blimp online),
Imagine an alien race that built its civilization on the fact it literally defecated highly refined uranium, or super-intelligent and obedient nano-bots, or simply extremely useful Swiss Army knives.
Now imagine one of ...
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The Rise of the Abortion Cheerleaders
Is abortion a sad and unfortunate reality — regrettable, as we are sometimes told, but often necessary — or is it a breezy nothingburger, completely “normal,” and something to be giddily celebrated like a last-minute NFL touchdown? For a long time, the abortion lobby has had difficulty deciding. This ...
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Professor: Wings-Eating Show Hot Ones Is Problematic for Women
According to a professor of media studies at the University of Tulsa, the YouTube show Hot Ones is problematic because it “manipulates inequitable gender hierarchies.”
In case you aren’t familiar with Hot Ones, it’s a show where the host challenges his guests to eat increasingly spicy chicken wings. ...
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Stalin at the Movies
Toward the end of The Death of Stalin, two Communist Party bosses size up Joseph Stalin’s immediate successor, Georgy Malenkov. “Can we trust him?” one asks.
“Can you ever really trust a weak man?” his comrade answers.
Good question.
Last week brought the news that the head of Shambhala ...
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‘The Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again’
One of President Trump’s outstanding appointments has been Dan Coats, his director of national intelligence. Coats is a former House member, former senator, and former ambassador to Germany. He is a Hoosier (i.e., from Indiana). Whether he plays basketball, I don’t know. At Wheaton College, he played soccer. ...
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Judge Kavanaugh on Lying To Federal Agents
Yesterday, I looked at a case where Judge Brett Kavanaugh, on the DC Circuit, sided with a criminal defendant asserting a “battered woman syndrome” defense. Today, let’s look at an opinion that aired his skepticism about an “ever-metastasizing” tool of federal prosecutors: 18 U.S.C. § 1001, the ...
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