“‘It’s a state-sized iceberg. It’s a big, big iceberg, it’s also equivalent to about the size of Rhode Island,’ said Walter Meier, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.”From “A ‘megaberg’ three times the size of New York City is on the move” (WaPo).That headline got me. “Megaberg” sounds like
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"Every two weeks or so, Robert S. Gregg bakes up a batch of chocolate chip cookies and drives them to his son working at a farm near Fredericktown, Ohio."
By Ann Althouse
“He has no plans to stop the tradition any time soon. He celebrated his 100th birthday in March, and had his driver’s license renewed shortly after. His son stops by every day to make sure he is up, and his daughter regularly takes him to medical appointments. Gregg’s daughter Susan Cunningham said her father has…
"The man who wrote 'Glengarry Glen Ross' knows a thing or two about salesmanship. But what he’s selling comes delivered in rhetoric so broad-brush…"
By Ann Althouse
“… it’s hard to determine the line between truth-telling and hot air. Hollywood is ‘flogging nonsense,’ populated by ‘criminal dolts’ in a ‘lickspittle racket’ policed by ‘Diversity Capos’ Sometimes the complaint is delivered in the form of tortured metaphors… Sometimes it arrives in the twitterpated grievance patter of the anti-PC crowd: ‘We knew [a movie…
"Trump and the Republicans held leads on… being for working people (a 7-point advantage), standing up to elites (8 points)…"
By Ann Althouse
“… being able to get things done for the American people (12 points), feeling safe (12 points) and keeping wages and salaries up with the cost of living (17 points)… [and] patriotism (11 points), crime (17 points), immigration (20 points) and border security (22 points)… [and] opposing extremism (3 points), getting beyond the chaos (6…
"George Floyd was saying 'I can't breathe' when he was standing up straight and just being coaxed to get into the car."
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“What they were trying to do was take him somewhere to get treatment, because the drugs were severely addling his mind and he wouldn’t get in the car. And he starts saying, breathing air, standing up, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ when nobody is anywhere near his neck or anything else. George Floyd was…
"Even though he has opponents in the primary, the party leadership has ordered that only Biden will appear on the primary ballot."
By Ann Althouse
“And if you want to register your discontent with Biden with a write-in vote, forget about it. Under Florida law, if the party approves only one name, there will be no primary ballots at all. The party just called the election for Biden before a single vote has been cast…. In other states, Democratic politicians…
2 from Glenn Greenwald.
By Ann Althouse
This is what you will hear from all liberal corporate outlets for the next year: no, this time we mean it! This time Trump *really will be* fascist!These are the people imprisoning non-violent Jan 6 protesters, prosecuting Trump to win an election, censoring the internet: pic.twitter.com/t4QxWFCYjq— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 4, 2023 Amazing yet…
Goodbye to Norman Lear.
By Ann Althouse
“Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101/As the producer of ‘All in the Family’ and many other shows, Mr. Lear showed that it was possible to be topical, funny and immensely popular” (NYT). “You looked around television in those years,” Mr. Lear said in a 2012 New York Times…
"A dearth of charging infrastructure is one of the top reasons Americans say they won’t buy an electric car."
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Woefully bland caption under a photograph at the Politico article “Congress provided $7.5B for electric vehicle chargers. Built so far: Zero. The sluggish rollout could undermine President Joe Biden’s reelection messaging promoting electric vehicles.”They’ve taken us so insanely deeply into debt, but what if we had a brilliant, beautiful, well-functioning, modernized national infrastructure to…
Snow on the trees at dawn, this morning.
By Ann Althouse
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