‘OH WELL, it was nearly right,’ said my son when he got a maths question wrong. ‘It doesn’t really matter.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ I replied. Nearly right is not right: it is wrong. Do you know what happens if one of the engineers working on space rockets gets something ‘nearly right’? The whole […]
As the various GOP campaigns wrapped up their efforts ahead of the Iowa caucuses, they were all barnstorming through as many events as possible. Due to bad weather, Nikki Haley was forced to cancel one of hers and replace it with a phone-in event where she took questions from voters. That’s when a person identifying […]
When those in power fail to act, sometimes we have to take matters into our own hands. That’s exactly what 73-year-old Albert Marcu did on Dec. 11 when a group of five young men attempted to rob the Estates Consignments store where he works in Pleasant Hill, California, roughly 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. […]
A stunt designed to celebrate the coming of Christmas turned deadly, according to reports from the Russian community of Chelyabinsk. A man wearing a red robe to appear to be Grandfather Frost — a Russian version of Santa Claus — fell to his death from a 24-story residential building, according to the New York Post. […]
The New York Times published a piece Thursday, “Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist?” and it is incredible (as in beyond belief, hard to believe, far-fetched, implausible). The headline leads you to believe that, finally, maybe there might be a discussion of this existential question with a (sadly) obvious answer, but that would be delusional. […]
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