Remembering this nugget from @davidfrum’s March 2017 cover story: “The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”

“American politics has an ingrained philistinism and anti-intellectualism that has been the cause of infinite mischief.” —Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)

If you think it’s “divisive” to talk about January 6, you should have seen the time the president incited a mob to overthrow the government.

@DavidPoland No worries. Merry Christmas.

@Old_Leather_Bat Merry Christmas!

@DavidPoland It’s a joke.

@TruthJustis4USA I’ll try to do better.

@HEADLINE65 No worries. Merry Christmas to you too!

@darwinsphonenbr It’s a joke.

@HEADLINE65 It’s a joke.

@Old_Leather_Bat Just a joke.

@letsrun26 It’s a joke.

@BarbaraJSobel It’s a joke.

@HEADLINE65 @Old_Leather_Bat It’s a joke.

RT @SarahLongwell25: Trump’s first term was a study in the capitulation of the Republican Party and conservative movement. Apparently Trump…

“The people favours incompetence … because it desires before everything, as indeed is very natural, that its representatives should resemble itself.” —Émile Faguet (born OTD in 1847)

Christopher Hitchens died 13 years ago today. I miss him.

Island of garbage

Not trying to brag but I just ran 11.38 miles. Okay, yes, I’m trying to brag.