This is the grave of Glenda Farrell. Born in 1904 in Enid, Oklahoma, Farrell grew up in a family that wanted her to succeed in the entertainment industry. Her father was a horse trader in Oklahoma Territory and part Cherokee. Her mother was white and a failed actress. But her mother wanted her kids to […]| Lawyers, Guns & Money
To use the word “negotiations” about tomorrow’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, if we consider its historical use for other actions between representatives of their nations, is to commit a category error. Historically, negotiations on ending wars or treaties or trade or any of the numerous issues that must be sorted out between […]| Lawyers, Guns & Money
Back when I was awarding contracts for environmental restoration, there would be some bidders who had nothing to do with environmental restoration. Their plan was to “team with” or subcontract to an organization that knew what they were doing. I never let a contract to them. Now comes General Matter. That’s the kind of name […]| Lawyers, Guns & Money
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My colleague at Balloon Juice, Tom Levenson, has written another book. Tom is a popular-science writer and has written a number of books on various aspects of science – climate, Newton, Einstein are a few. So Very Small is particularly relevant to our time. It traces the development of germ theory while also giving an […]| Lawyers, Guns & Money
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To the extent Trump believes in anything, he believes in this: Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We’re now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There’s zero deals so far. Why is that? No, there’s many deals. When are […]| Lawyers, Guns & Money
So RFK Jr. is going to to build a government data base out of private medical records to track useless eaters people with autism in real time. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is set to amass the private medical records of Americans for a new autism study. On April […]| Lawyers, Guns & Money
