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Oh, bother! Winnie the Pooh and Piglet star in a R-rated horror flick
Say it isn't so. A much-beloved childhood literary character and his sidekick have become the stars of a dark and grisly movie. It's all because of the end of copyright protection and its entrance into the public…
Illinois has 930 schools where only one in ten children can do math at grade level (Update)
Earlier this month both David and I wrote about Baltimore's failing schools. Recent test scores found that there were 23 schools in the city where not even one child was doing math at grade level. These included…
Where I say something nice about the Washington Post
Yesterday I wrote a piece accusing the Washington Post of outright lying about Elon Musk's rumored tantrum that led to an algorithm tweak that put his tweets at the top of everybody's timeline. They also complained…
Do we need a peacetime draft?
Talk about words to shiver your timbers.Read More
WaPo columnist wants to “shame Republican judges”
It's hard to escape the feeling that people are slowly pulling bricks out of the wall that shores up the American government these days. We are already at a point where both the approval of and confidence in our…
NOLA mayor enters legal battle over recall with an empty war chest
The effort to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell marches on. Late last week organizers sued two election officials, setting the stage for what will likely be a long legal and political fight. The recall effort has to…
Bing’s chatbot is really scary
ChatGPT is woke, but Microsoft's Bing Chatbot is downright scary.Read More
The tactics used by one ‘reputation management’ company to remove negative information from the internet
Have you heard of these "reputation management" firms? Here in Orange County they advertise on the radio. The basic idea is that if you own company which has received some sort of negative attention on the internet,…
Yep. Moscow knew in advance about Biden’s trip
When I was watching and writing about Joe Biden's visit to Kyiv this morning, I brought up the potential dangers involved with such a trip. The White House was busy for much of the day touting the "historic"…
Why does it seem only sane people get canceled?
I'm asking this for a very good reason, born of frustration, but it's no doubt just more shaking an angry fist at the sky for all the good it does asking.Read More