These colors are bleeding

Watching as the Trump Administration and Senate leaders pander to those rare Republican holdouts is one part entertaining (The Florida senator Trump once insulted, repeatedly, as “Little Marco” can now hold the Republican tax bill hostage, looks like) and one part terrifying. What we’re seeing is factionalism and a blind philosophical drive to cut taxes…

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Top 10 things I’m doing during the first 100 days

10. Memorizing the lyrics to the Beatles song, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” 9. Writing a long essay on the Hamlet-Bojack Horseman linkages. 8. Issuing executive orders around the house, principally to the dog. 7. Intentionally mismatching my daughters’ socks. 6. Attempting to make the sound of one hand clapping. 5. Teaching my Google Home device German. 4. Polishing my wife’s left and right…

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The arrogance of ignorance

It’s become accepted in many quarters to associate the wielding of facts or knowledge with arrogance. Typically the term is applied to political liberals – coastal elites, the blue-state bloviators, whatever one might call all the annoying know-it-alls who purportedly disdain the Rust Belt working-folk and get their information from sources not owned by Rupert…

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