Guillotines in France, piano wire in Germany, open windows in Russia. I’m with HCR in marveling at the historical blindness of the tech bros. I don’t think any of them read anything except Golden Age science fiction. And The Prof is exactly right in what his tech buddy’s pilots will do if it ever comes…
How I voted. For US Senate– Mary Peltola. She has run a tremendous campaign that took her everywhere in the state and I believe she will bring that work ethic to the US Senate, and not before time. Dan has never once tried to put the brakes on Trump. For US House– Bill Hill. If…
Jon Grinspan, according to his bio, is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian, and it’s obvious that he has spent more than a little time in the archives. This book is an account of American political history between the Civil War and the First World War. If anything the wars seem a little…
Read more If anything the wars seem a little tame by comparison.
Today there’s only one story. Election 2026 I voted early on Friday. Here’s how and why. For US Senate– Mary Peltola. She has run a tremendous campaign that took her everywhere in the state and I believe she will bring that work ethic to the US Senate and not before time. Dan has never once…
Another snippet… There was one woman besides Clare, a woman a newspaper reporter would have described as “well nourished,” dressed in a long and somewhat dilapidated black coat with a deep red silk flounce peeping out from beneath the hem. She turned her head when Clare came in. She…
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I’m not a big believer in polls. They’re wrong as often as they are right. But this year they’ve been pretty consistent in showing that the Democrats are going to take back the House of Representatives, by how big a margin no one knows. I’m okay with that, because the current House has not exerted…
For the past eight years, Sarah Vance has been a reliable member of the Republican caucus in the Alaska House of Representatives, winning election four different times in a district covering the southern Kenai Peninsula. But in this August’s primary election, something unusual happened: An independent challenger, Brent Johnson of Clam Gulch, beat Vance by…
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My view of the intelligence services was formed during the Church hearings in 1975, and all the bad opinions I held then were only affirmed when the news about the CIA’s extreme rendition (kidnapping) and extreme interrogation (torture) protocols broke following 9/11. But then I heard James Clapper talking about his work in the IC…
