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Republicans refuse to add judges under veil of electoral ignorance, pretend to be surprised that Democrats withdraw thei...
24/12/2024

Republicans refuse to add judges under veil of electoral ignorance, pretend to be surprised that Democrats withdraw their agreement

Jonathan Adler — with unhappiness reflected in the subhead “It is apparently unacceptable that some of the new judges would be appointed by a Republican” — objects to Biden vetoing a bill to create more District Court judgeships: Yesterday the White House issued a statement by President Bi...

Literally serious
24/12/2024

Literally serious

Current CNN headline: Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada Well that’s one way to put it. President-elect Donald Trump appears to be entertaining an American territorial expansion that, if he’s serious, would rival the Louisiana Purchase or the deal that netted Alaska ...

Starbucks Strike
24/12/2024

Starbucks Strike

We will see if this makes any difference given that the number of stores involved is not really crazy high, but it is very much worth noting and keeping an eye upon: A strike by workers at Starbucks will widen to reach more than 300 locations nationwide Tuesday escalating a five-day work stoppage ov...

Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio
24/12/2024

Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio

Readers familiar with my writing will know that I write about comics rarely, and about media tie-in fiction not at all, so I hope the fact that my latest review at Strange Horizons is of a book that is both of those things will, in itself, be a sign that this is a book worth […]

Imagine no possessions
24/12/2024

Imagine no possessions

Hermes Matte Niloticus Crocodile Himalaya Kelly Retourne 32 White $185,000 (Used) This NYT essay on a purported crisis among the highest-end luxury fashion brands triggered the Oliver Cromwell/Mao Zedong impulse lurking in my decadent late capitalist soul. (I did spend $30 for a Martini, including t...

Russia Turns to Crypto
24/12/2024

Russia Turns to Crypto

Not completely new or unexpected, but still worthy of some attention: The new legislation gives the Russian government (particularly Russia’s Central Bank) greater latitude to monitor and support the transfer, mining, and operation of crypto-currency producers within the country. It also builds ...

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,784
24/12/2024

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,784

This is the grave of George Pettibone. Born in 1862, Pettibone was a miner. He came out of Kansas, but he eventually ended up in Idaho. He was just a working class guy. He became an activist in the Western Federation of Miners. This started up in Idaho at the Coeur d’Alene mines after the […]

What would happen if you elected an ill-behaved dull-normal eight year old boy as POTUS?
24/12/2024

What would happen if you elected an ill-behaved dull-normal eight year old boy as POTUS?

I think it might just be a little bit like this:  First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied cou...

Sometimes it’s who you could not possibly suspect more
23/12/2024

Sometimes it’s who you could not possibly suspect more

This is what too-degenerate-for-MAGA [unless you’re literally Donald Trump] looks like: The House Ethics Committee said on Monday that its lengthy investigation had found that former Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s initial choice for attorney g...

Biden commutes vast majority of federal death sentences
23/12/2024

Biden commutes vast majority of federal death sentences

I was hoping this was good advice he was just going to take: President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken pro...

Santa’s Campaign of Holiday Terror
23/12/2024

Santa’s Campaign of Holiday Terror

A couple years ago I wrote a short piece detailing efforts to defeat Santa’s annual campaign of aerial incursion. With two years of air campaign under our belt, it’s time to revisit this long-standing security problem: The war against Santa is a multi-domain conflict. In recent years defenders h...

More non-interventionism from the Peace President
23/12/2024

More non-interventionism from the Peace President

Trump, not content with his own idiosyncratic imperialist fantasies, is also going back to Ronald Reagan’s nostalgia file: President-elect Donald Trump is openly discussing provocative aspirations for U.S. territorial expansion as he prepares to return to the White House, warning about taking ov...

Evidence versus truth
23/12/2024

Evidence versus truth

Andrew Gelman makes an important distinction in this post between the statistical evidence for a proposition and the ultimate truth of the proposition. The reason this distinction is so important is that politicians and other policy makers have to make decisions not just on the basis of statistical....

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,783
23/12/2024

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,783

This is the grave of John Schofield. Born in 1831 in Gerry, New York, Schofield grew up the son of a Baptist minister and missionary. The lattermeant a lot of moving around and they ended up in Freeport, Illinois for Schofield’s teenage years. After school, Schofield spent some time surveying land...

Open thread open thread
23/12/2024

Open thread open thread

Greetings and cheers from lovely if rainy Vancouver! A fine old fashioned holiday season to all LGM readers.

NFL Open Thread: My American Cousins edition
22/12/2024

NFL Open Thread: My American Cousins edition

The best thing you can say about the Falcons’s bizarre sequence of QB decisions in the offseason is that the “draft Penix” part is looking better: We’ve already gone chapter and verse on how Cousins’ lack of mobility has grievously limited his options as a thrower, and how offensive coordi...

Gaming Notes
22/12/2024

Gaming Notes

My Steam Replay dropped last week, which was a reminder that I should put together another one of these posts before the year ends. I don’t use Spotify, so the annual hoopla over Spotify Wrapped tends to pass me by, but Steam Replay usually offers some surprising revelations. To wit: for someone w...

Counting Up the Victims of Genocide
22/12/2024

Counting Up the Victims of Genocide

The Washington Post attempted to count the number of dead Native children on the grounds of the genocidal Indian Schools. The best number it could come up with is 3,100, which is almost certainly low, but these things are likely to be underestimated due to record keeping lags. Bone by bone, two arch...

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