Posts Tagged ‘The Chautauqua Institution’

Taking A Sick Day; Also, Salman Rushdie Stabbed

Friday, August 12th, 2022

I’ve come down with the first real cold I’ve had in two years, and the 90 minute recall work on my car took 3.5 hours, so I’m tried and pissed off, Maybe a LinkSwarm tomorrow, assuming I’m feeling better.

Meanwhile: Open thread.

Also, writer Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck today at an event in The Chautauqua Institution in southwest New York state, near Lake Eire and the Pennsylvania line. As of this writing, Rushdie is evidently still alive and in surgery.

“The current Supreme Leader [of the Islamic Republic of Iran] repeated and reaffirmed the original fatwa as recently as 2019.”

And these are the people the Biden Administration is desperate to do a deal with…