I've just finished Deborah Birx's "Silent Invasion" and would recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how the US failed -- and succeeded -- in our response to COVID. The ti… (View Post)

Cyclefree - Again, my best wishes to your daughter and you. I hope her problems are resolved quickly, completely, and permanently. (View Post)

Here's a bit of trivia for you: "New York came 89 people short of maintaining its House delegation at 27 members, according to numbers released by the Census Bureau on Monday. Instead, it w… (View Post)

Two Washington Post columns on US mid-terms: First, from Megan McArdle (perhaps my current favorite columnist): "So it’s not exactly surprising that many of those voters have sided with the amor… (View Post)

There are interesting parallels in what Cyclefree wrote to what has happened in American cities controlled by leftists, such as San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), and Seattle. When they cut back finan… (View Post)