It is very hard for me to believe that Bill Cosby is a serial sexual predator. It is also very hard for me to believe that so many women are fabricating stories of him assaulting them. (Opportunistic liars tend to come in onesies and twosies, not dozens.) There are the parts of the public record … Read more
As commentary on my views, I rarely find anything as wrong-headed as the assertion that I’m “voting against (my) self-interest.” I recently encountered a typically obnoxious example (and with a race card bonus!). These assessments of my motivations are at best presumptuous, and at worst ignorant. They assume a single, predictable effect of a proposed law … Read more
…didn’t know anything about popular music. He never knew anything about what I was listening to, and he didn’t even reliably follow his own favorites, like Billy Joel and Neil Diamond. I understand it now. …would try to fix some cheap something-or-other instead of replacing it. He would sit and fuss with low-quality crap trying … Read more