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Author Archives: WorldWideWeber
Hydrosonic
Months ago, Trump elicited guffaws in the non-Trumpist press and social media when he bragged about an amazing new “hydrosonic missile” purportedly under development. In the intervening time he has repeated the phrase—today, for instance: Note how he uses both … Continue reading
Spiders
It appears that my beloved baseball team, the Cleveland Indians, is seriously considering a name change. While many thought the only problem with the team’s image was the ignobly grinning Chief Wahoo, others insisted the name itself is racist, even … Continue reading
Conway
I am not a mathematician, but I played one on TV in a magazine—Quantum: The Magazine of Math and Science. That is how I learned about John Horton Conway, who passed away this week from complications of COVID-19. Conway wrote … Continue reading
Terminology
“Please answer me quite frankly. Are you absolutely convinced it’s plague?” “You’re stating the problem wrongly. It’s not a question of the term I use; it’s a question of time.” “Your view, I take it,” the Prefect put in, “is … Continue reading
Rot
Donald John Trump was impeached yesterday. Finally. He got off with a mere two counts, but that is enough to tag him forever as a derelict thug. More importantly, perhaps, the impeachment process made glaringly obvious the thorough decrepitude of … Continue reading
Subsolar
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9 ) In an autobiographical fragment, Mark Twain … Continue reading
Clausectomy
Josh Marshall, among many others, noted the tendentious editing perpetrated a month ago by the Don’s personal attorney general in ever so briefly summarizing the Mueller report, which was finally released today, sort of (lots of missing stuff). What William … Continue reading
Deliverance
Where, if we could, would we send him, this heartless ignorant shell of a man? Someplace without clean running water, neither hot nor cold, no water at all, let him clean himself in the dust by the road like a … Continue reading
Leftness
Have I ever mounted a bicycle from the right? No, and I do not recall seeing anyone else do it. “Why do you ask?” I ask myself. Blame it on The Third Policemen—specifically, the fecund imagination (or is it boundless … Continue reading
Track-me-not
Slate has started plastering an alert over their home page on my first visit of the day: The fact is, I do not block ads. I see a lot of ads online, all day, every day (I see them, e.g., at … Continue reading
