2025-08-05: "Progressivism — forgive me, left-wing readers — has a conformity problem. Even more than on the right, there are incredible social pressures in left-wing circles to not say anything objectionable. (On the right, by contrast, it seems that you get rewarded the more objectionable things you can say.)"
-- David Brooks.
I can't say he's wrong.
2025-08-08: Headline: "Texas GOP sics FBI on absent Democrats as Texas Senate panel advances gerrymandered congressional map."
I'm old enough to remember when the Texas GOP wanted nothing more than the feds to stay out of Texas's business. I guess it was never about states' rights at all.
2025-08-12: Local TV station news: "Bat tests positive for rabies after it was found dead in North Texas city."'
Plano. It was Plano. Why not just say Plano? Your audience is local. They know Plano is a "North Texas city." Does every headline have to be clickbait?
2025-08-12: Headline: "Oklahoma QB John Mateer denies betting on sports, calls Venmo descriptions ‘inside jokes’"
OK, then, don't discipline him for betting on sports. Discipline him for being too dumb to play quarterback.
2025-08-17: "This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.”
-- George H.W. Bush, 08/05/1990
“Ukraine and Russia will have to swap some land for peace.”
-- Donald Trump, 08/11/2025
I prefer presidents who stand up to bullies.
2025-08-24: "The point of our energy policy should not be to use less energy. The point of our energy policy should be to make clean energy so — ahem — abundant that we can use much more of it and do much more with it."
-- Ezra Klein
nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion...
2025-08-29: I've considered the "fight or flight" dilemma. And so far, I've decided to do neither. Maybe someday, future historians will look back and ask why so many others were like me. The only answer I can offer is lack of imagination. What can I do?
2025-08-30: Come and Take It
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