From the Washington Post: She doesn't seem to have a politician's needed knack for knowing when to change the subject and answer a different question than the one asked. This ground is fraught for Warren, who claimed to be Native American for about two decades when she was a law professor. She has apologized for... Read More

Okay, this is like seriously weird ...

21st Century Israeli politics is always fun to read about for its Through the Looking Glass aspect. If Trump were an Israeli politician, he'd belong to the Pathetic Liberal Squish Party, along with the Israeli equivalent of Ken Burns. From The Guardian: Benjamin Netanyahu strikes deal with hardline parties ahead of Israel elections Prime minister... Read More

Nick Bilton writes in Vanity Fair: Despite the chaos, [Elizabeth Holmes] believed that Theranos could still be saved, and she had an unconventional plan for redemption. That September, according to the two former executives, Holmes asked her security detail and one of her drivers to escort her to the airport in her designated black Cadillac... Read More

Gray Journalism is the opposite of Yellow Journalism: it's covering up unpalatable realities by burying the interesting facts until long after most people have stopped reading. The Gray Lady, the NYT, is the leading practitioner of Gray Journalism. For example, articles in the New York Times about anti-Semitic incidents often take just about forever to... Read More

Juan Guaidó, the American-supported pretender to the throne of Venezuela, looks like a cross between Barack Obama and movie star James Woods.

Ryan Adams' music is being #MeTooed off the radio due to allegations of his being "psychologically abusive" of his ex-wife and other women. I can't say I'll miss his songs because the only thing I know about Ryan Adams is that I'm not the only oldster to get him confused with 1980s power balladeer Bryan... Read More

From Politico: How Does a Straight White Male Democrat Run for President? Very carefully. By BILL SCHER February 17, 2019 Of the nine candidates officially running in the Democratic presidential primary, only one is a heterosexual white man. And that guy, former Rep. John Delaney, generally polls somewhere between zero and 1 percent. But of... Read More

I was driving down Sunset Boulevard when I noticed that the logo on advertising banners for a Los Angeles institution resembles an IQ test question: The message this logo sends is: If you've got a 2 digit IQ, we're not for you. � � MOCA: Museum of Contemporary Art The square is an M, the... Read More