There’s a line – a sentiment, actually – that governments everywhere really need to take to heart. “Don’t just do something – stand there.” Of course they won’t – because they’re governments. But it would be a lot cooler if they did. Why do we want them standing there – rather than doing something? Because […]
The Year of Our Lord 2020 – has been a long stretch of very bad road. Fair is foul – foul is fair. Down is up – up is down. Swine are sprouting pinions and taking to the air. I think often of the cinematic classic “The Lion in Winter”: Henry II: “The day those […]
The Donald Trump Administration inherited a LOT of accrued crap with which to deal. Our federal government was for the last half-century-plus run by a Democrat-Republican Uni-Party. Both alleged Parties spent decades paying lip service to great chasms of difference between their respective policy prescriptions. But both alleged Parties secretly agreed on just about everything. […]
It’s a perpetual case of Chico Marx’s famous line: “Who ya gonna believe – me or your own eyes?” The World Wide Web will quickly deliver you all sorts of ridiculous excuses from people engaged in criminal activity. I Closed One Eye to Stop Seeing Double So I Could Drive Drunk I’m Not Drunk, But […]
In this Age of Idiocy, let us revel in a moment of sanity. Unanimously delivered to us by – are you sitting down? – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Appeals Court Throws Out Antitrust Ruling In the world of judges and Justices – this is exceedingly embarrassing: “A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court […]
Hypocrisy – is a part of being human. Human nature is immutable. So occasional lapses into hypocrisy are understandable. That doesn’t entirely excuse hypocrisy. Nor does it inoculate those engaging in it from criticism. 17th Century French writer François de La Rochefoucauld wisely noted: “Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” To wit: […]
Imagine you’re mugged. The thief takes all your cash – and vamooses. The police (God bless them) catch the guy. And off to court you go – to ensure the larcenist receives what he’s judicially due. And in court, in his defense, the thief asserts: “If you punish me for stealing money – people will […]
In this, the Age of Social Media, everything said – must be said curtly and quickly. It is tough to be subtle in less than 280 characters. And sadly, the combination of government schools and social media has rendered most of us stupid – with infinitesimal attention spans. To grab majority attention – one must […]
There are very few things in life more annoying than someone who is at once condescending and wrong. Included therein are people who pretend they are helping us – while they’re screwing us. Or even worse: They know we know they’re screwing us – and they continue to pretend they’re helping us while they screw […]
Yesterday we wrote this: “I’m sure you think it. And feel it. “We the People are currently awash in insanity. Nothing makes sense. No one is behaving rationally. “It is because the Left is currently running things. They have been rapidly advancing – and almost no one is doing anything to stop them.” The Left’s […]