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Friday Cat Blogging – 29 December 2023
When we last saw Charlie he was wearing a stylish black cone to keep him from picking at a sore spot on his back leg. That proved unworkable: it didn't keep him from getting to his leg and he was able...
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Right-on-red works fine. There’s no need to ban it.
Someone on Twitter recently re-upped a Fast Company piece from a few months ago about our old friend, right turn on red—known to all traffic cognoscenti as RTOR: It's time to ban 'right-on-red'...
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Joe Biden has crushed the working class by raising the price of au pairs
Marc Thiessen has a list today of the ten worst things Joe Biden did this year. Here's the first: 10. He made the child-care crisis worse. As my Post colleague Alyssa Rosenberg and I pointed out in...
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NBA star speaks the truth only Stephen King has spoken before
I'm not a big NBA fan, so I've followed the hype over French superstar-to-be Victor Wembanyama only distantly. But I think I'm really starting to like the guy. “With your first experience in Vegas —...
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How woke is Harvard?
Harvard has been in the news a lot lately, and among other things critics say that wokeism has gotten so out of hand that it's all but impossible to be hired there unless you're a person of color. That...
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Top ten photos of 2023
This was a bit of a weak year for photos, largely because I haven't gone out a lot since the CAR-T treatment in April. Not only did I not have a hard time paring my choices down to ten, I actually had...
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Top 20 charts of 2023
Unlike the photos, I had no problem finding ten interesting charts. In fact, I found 20. So at the risk of taking a good thing too far, here are the top 20 most interesting charts of 2023. By the way:...
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Here are a few miscellaneous predictions for the new year: Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. Joe Biden will be reelected president. Waymo will solve its highway problems and finally have...
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Top 10 extinction level natural disasters for 2024
Ha ha, the headline is just clickbait. Most of these aren't really extinction level events, they're just really bad. And the odds of any of them happening in 2024 are minuscule. But still possible!...
View ArticleTop 10 years of the past few centuries
These are mostly years in which a surprising number of important things happened. For the most part, wars are excluded. Go ahead and argue with my choices in comments. 1687: Isaac Newton invents...
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