Category Archives: The Facts of Life

Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Naomi

Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading →

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A dark warning to Trump about his glittery monarchy

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Naomi

New ideas of socialism were in the air. They were spreading through Europe, and it was not only in France that men accounted it an infamous anachronism that the great mass of a community should toil and sweat and suffer … Continue reading →

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Kid assassins in Sweden? Didn’t I read about this before?

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Naomi

Yes, I did! My informant was Harper’s Weekly Review. Who else would tell me about a Swedish…fad? movement? cult? involving teenage girls? That was in September of this year. Now, December, Harper’s has an update, of sorts: [I]n the latest … Continue reading →

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