2024 PROFILE IN COURAGE AWARD®
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi announced as surprise winner before the scheduled close of nominations
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Beauty: it really is a social construct
The eye can see what the hand can't trace—theme and variations on an AI meditation of realizations of beauty
It's Complicated
This isn't for you, kids. It's not a reflection on your generation. Or of it. You'll have your own versions and all that goes with it. For the rest of us, the spoilers that follow won't matter.
ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή
Who says that we will never pass this way again?
The Law of Defamation: A Modest Proposal
It is difficult enough to combat disinformation without letting the trolls cloak themselves in honest debate. Expose the bastards and do an Alex Jones on 'em.
Trump's Last Appeal, Imagined
I imagine the Court's reaction when Trump is then safely convicted
BREAKING: TRUMP NOT IMMUNE
DC Circuit rules that Trump should not have refused so many COVID-19 shots and boosters
Show Me the Money
Here's the moneyball for the The Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
Focus on the Sausage
We were warned, but we still pay more attention to the drama of messy process and neglect what may (or may not) be the delicious outcome. Here's a charcuterie taste test of the immigration bill.
«Best practices» Convert the incoming hot mess
The wry joke is that data science is only 10% of the sexy stuff like machine learning—the other 90% is euphemistically called "data cleaning."
QOTD
Complaints of the disconnect between words and deeds are to be expected, but misplaced. A faith based on a personal relationship with Jesus, a doctrine of direct revelation, cannot be criticized for failing to embrace the lesser truth of orthodoxy.
The Salaryman's Anxiety
The lady or the tiger? Your position is secure? Or is it a candidate for a Chat?
The Concertina Case
The rule of law is not, by it self, adequate to protect the rule of law against motivated reasoning. Only if an overarching principle that the People of the United States as a whole must take precedence over the authority of any state if an indissoluble union is to be maintained.