One of Our Bees Is Missing

Introduction: Now that we have sprayed the whole jungle with Agent Orange in order to find out if anything nefarious was going on in there, the answers are starting to come back. Not any more. Say that in your best Inspector Clouseau voice. Not any more. Now that we survey the damage, along with the …

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Dantesque Lighting

“The ceiling of the room where the cocktail party was held was thickly covered with numerous chandeliers, the hotel ballroom kind of chandelier, and with all of them putting out the kind of light you might see at the lower wattage end of a brown out. The lights, however, were not flickering, which made you realize that somebody was doing it all on purpose. Despite the lighting, and perhaps because of it, the room was filled with major media figures, television personalities, editors and other detritus from the publishing world, a handful of decrepit rock stars, and throbbing electropop. Oom cha oom cha oom cha. Oh, and money. The room was full of money in very adult amounts, Manhattan scale, while the crackling envy and flirtation levels were all still stuck in junior high, Hoboken scale. The ‘atrocious lighting,’ as Dr. Tom summed it up, made it look like one of Dante’s circles done up in sepia tones.”

Flags Out Front, p. 114

So the Washington Examiner Picked Up On Our Story

The Basic Issue: The Washington Examiner now has a good story about how GooglePlus suspended our Christ Church app for Android over some of our content related to the coronavirus. It is a very good story, and you can pick up on all the salient facts there. They did leave out one thing, which is …

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Why We Should be Suspicious of Digital Evidence

“Pretend you just told me that you read about some people who crept into my house in the middle of the night and they swear they found some porn in my library or under my bed. And you want to maintain that they are dishonest enough to break into my house like this, but honest enough not to plant the porn there? How did you get criminals like this with just the right balance of honesty and dishonesty?”

Flags Out Front, p. 113

Random COVID Stuff from Around the Web

Introduction: This will be a brief intro to a very brief collection of corona-related links from around the web. Maybe an editorial comment or two. So That Was Nice of Them: Although His Answer Was True Enough: The governor of New Jersey gives us a peek inside their thought processes. But at Least Facebook Has …

I Am Not Sure I Have Ever Been Damned with Fainter Praise

Introduction: So it is a red letter day, in that Rod Dreher came to my defense. But in his defense, he sure didn’t want to. “So, even though it probably makes him cringe to have Rod Dreher stand up for him, and believe me, it makes Rod Dreher cringe to do it …I’m going to …

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