Reg,

Traditional liberalism (rooted in John Stuart Mill, FDR, and JFK) emphasized individual rights, free speech, economic fairness, and civil liberties. Today, parts of the Democratic Party have embraced “woke” politics, which prioritize group identity, intersectionality, and equity over classical liberal principles like universalism and mer…

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Here is another review of the Sunday book recommendation.

Unseen wrote:
Her pretty face kept her in the news cycle.

It was the sensationalism of the case that kept it in the news cycle, together with her being British, one of our own.  Murder, sex, drugs, pretty girls, Africans, Italians – it had it all.

@ Reg

Yes, the truth is always more complicated than can be summed up in one sentence. All the things you detailed were true, but it was her good looks more than anything else that saved her. Her pretty face kept her in the news cycle.

@Unseen – Yes, a lot more than just the economy.

Project 2025 ‘is the agenda’ for Trump’s second term and they admitted it the day after the election.  The thing with the lies is that there were so many of them and fired from various sources simultaneously. There was too much to unpick. By the time people got over the “Eating the dogs and eating…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Democrats should have reused the brilliantly simple political messaging strategy that helped Bill Clinton defeat George H.W. Bush in 1992.  James Carville’s famous phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” was a reminder to the Clinton campaign to stay focused on what truly mattered to voters: economic issues. Yes, Har…

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Reg,

Great job dismantling fine tuning. Very analytical.

I knew about Uti Possidetus Juris as it applies to Israel. Learned from the article that the Turks during their hegemony over the region limited number of Jews who were permitted. I don’t give two cents for international law. The UN, Amnesty or any of it. It is all lying racist political…[Read more]

Reg,

There are, of course, other reasons to question “fine-tuning” for life.

For example, if another Element could take the place of Carbon as a hub for other Elements to bond and form self-sustaining, replicating bodies, then life may not have to be Carbon-based. If so, then Life, the Universe, ad Everything is not so “fine-tuned” as the…[Read more]

On the Nobel prize:

From the NYT:

On Sunday, Mr. Rubio leaned heavily on emotive language to push back against the critics who have since berated the Trump administration for the public display of hostility toward Mr. Zelensky, a wartime president who frames his battle against Russia’s invasion as a bulwark of Europe’s security and freedom. Mr.…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Had she been a black girl or a homely white girl, she’d have been toast.

If she had been Black, she would have been treated worse by the police and the press.  Beyond that, that’s a pretty misogynistic assessment.  What do the Brits think?  We’ve pretty much forgotten about it.  I think it unfolded in a complex way and we follo…[Read more]