Today I had an utterly fruitless conversation. It was a giant waste of time, but I didn’t realize it until I went out on my walk. I do some of my best thinking while walking. It struck me again that for many people, words are worse than killing. What happened was that someone posted a…
Father-son liars tell idiots what they want to hear
May 22, 2023
You can’t get more dishonest than the father-son duo of Sidney and Max Blumenthal. Sidney is a longtime Clinton sycophant. He was the head of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private intelligence-gathering organization, even though Blumenthal is a journalist and has no training whatsoever in spycraft. Sidney’s son Max Blumenthal is an author and journalist…
The first step is the hardest
May 20, 2023
Today is a milestone. I took the first step in my recovery from the past two years. Finally I went on a long walk. A physical-exercise walk, up steep hills. I’ll do this six days a week, the way I did before January 16, 2013, the day my parents told me that they had cancer….
Will people ever stop lying about Israel?
May 19, 2023
Someone directed me to a piece by Washington Post writer William Booth: “Israeli veterans say permissive rules of engagement fueled Gaza carnage.” No. As Booth himself writes, “The testimonies in the report are anonymous and impossible to independently verify.” That means that both Booth’s piece and the Breaking the Silence report “This is How We…
Who really ordered US special forces into Syria?
May 16, 2023
Last night the US Army Combat Applications Group (CAG)—known popularly as the Delta Force—killed Islamic State emir Abu Sayyaf in eastern Syria. The special forces carried out what’s called an air assault: They were flown in by Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. This was an incredibly risky operation. The goal was to…
What if YOU were the murder victim?
May 15, 2023
Today Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013. People on Twitter told me that they oppose the death penalty because it’s immoral. Opposition to the death penalty is perfectly legitimate for a variety of reasons, but if you think capital punishment is immoral, then…
This is why I hate politics
May 14, 2023
I’m apolitical. Although I vote, my heart isn’t in it, and I never expect anything good to come from it. The question du jour being asked Republican presidential candidates is, “If you knew then what you know now about Saddam Hussein, would you have invaded Iraq?” Because of politics, the politicians who want to be…