Arlo Guthrie famously opined, “once is a crazy man. Twice is a coincidence, But three, three is a conspiracy.1 In the same tradition, WC offers ten ties between Trump and Russia. Mind you, ther are a lot more than ten; but ten should suffice to establish that there is a consipracy. Even if it is…
Commentary / Hypocrisy / Law
WC is a lawyer. Back in the day, WC did some criminal defense. And one of the things every criminal defense lawyer learns is that a lot of the players in the criminal law game just aren’t that smart. There was Jody Wilson. City of Fairbanks Policeman Dave Curwen knocked on Wilson’s door and said,…
Randall Munroe, who draws the excellent webcomic XKCD, has posted two comics on particle physics in the last week, each upstaging WC’s pitiful attempt to explain quarks. Maybe by posting his most recent cartoon, he’ll cut WC some slack. A wonderful, geeky summary of particle properties that only slightly overstates the jargon. WC will throw…
Last Monday night, WC got to see the world’s most popular game played by the world’s most popular sports team, live, from box seats, for free. Specifically, WC watched an exhibition match between Real Salt Lake, U.S. Major League Soccer’s Salt Lake City, Utah franchise, and Manchester United, which is pretty much beyond question the…
This election was lost four and five and six years ago not this year. They dident start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was…
WC recently received an email from an anonymous Pete Kelly supporter, accusing WC of “distorting” Senator Kelly’s position. And failing to acknowledge the sacrifices Senator Kelly makes by serving in the state senate. (Grammar tips, Mr. Anonymous: the possessive “its” doesn’t take an apostrophe. And it’s “They’re,” not “their.”) So, yeah, let’s remember to thank…
Did you see my little Jimmy marching with the soldiers up the avenue? There was Jimmy just as stiff as starch like his Daddy on the seventeenth of March. Did you notice all the lovely ladies casting their eyes on him? Away he went to live in a tent over in France with his regiment…
Several times in recent years, WC has seen juvenile birds demonstrating that human kids aren’t the only juveniles who are sometimes dumb as bricks. Here’s a juvenile hatch year Common Redpoll. It is literally surrounded by seeds, and clearly well fed, but it is begging for food. It wants food from its parent. This is…
Donald Trump isn’t the only Republican trumpeting that the Affordable Care Act is faling. But he is the only U.S. President who tweets the claim on a regular basis. Indeed, the claimed “failure” of Obamacare is a primary excuse for the various Republican efforts to repeal the ACA, or replace the ACA. Embarrassingly for Republicans,…
Albert Lee has been in the music business since 1959. He’s played with everyone from The Thunderbirds to Eric Clapton to Emmylou Harris to the Everly Brothers. But you’ve probably never heard of him, let alone seen him live. Well, you’ve missed a treat, because he just might be the greatest living guitarist, certainly if…
Okay, it’s not a monkey, it’s a Crested Black Macaque. Specifically, Naruto. He famously took selfies – before selfies were really a thing – after stealing photographer David Slater’s camera. Who owns the images? Slater thought he did, but he lost that fight. And, strictly speaking, it’s not Naruto bringing the lawsuit. People for the…
The church across the alley from WC’s house in Boise was going to be condemned. The roof trusses had failed under the past winter’s snow load. The damage is obvious from the outside. Folks said it “couldn’t be repaired,” but what they meant was that the cost of repairs was too high, more than the…
