Accordingly, there's a long list of Short Takes. I made the list, you check it twice.
1. He was wrong.
3. You’re not yourself when you’re officious. Yeah, especially when the party in power is destroying the country.
4. Get out there and vote. "And then know that your vote will be counted and stop whining about fraud. It’s extremely off putting to those of us in the middle. It makes you sound like a loser, and losers don’t win."
5. The omnishambles. "The war against aspiration — and against achievement — is what it is."
6. On with the sausage-making! "Democrats are instead having the equivalent of a messy Facebook fight, openly airing their dirty laundry in the hopes of achieving their policy priorities through overwhelming public support and positive press."
7. Joe Biden, motivated by ego. "The problem for Democrats and Biden is they listen too much to the loudest liberal activist voices in the party and ignore the people who put them in office." "Loudest liberal activist" intersects with "presidential historian" in toxic ways. The fun has stopped under Biden.
10. Make common cause with Militant Normals? "How dare these world leaders have a fancy dinner on the first night of COP26, as if they have something to be proud of."
11. Leftists come, leftists go, leftists come again. "[P]rogressive Democrats don’t want to listen." Until there's a better answer, they don't have to. It helps that "Average Americans are fed up with the Democrats’ woke agenda and are eager to escape it."
12. A good tactic is one you enjoy. "There’s absolutely nothing shocking about using the phrase 'F' Joe Biden." When their plans blow up in his face, we snicker.
13. The more complete, the more ineffective. "[P]lanners have created a job bigger than they can do." When it doesn't work out, the Croly Ghost moves them to double down. "Urban planners ... respond, however, by writing byzantine rules for each community, requiring each to stay diverse in precisely the way the planner dictates."
14. The potency of shame wanes with its overuse. "This is the type of workaday condescension and pandemic-era power flex that has a subset of parents—especially in the blue states where teachers unions hold sway—apoplectic."
15. It is in the nature of science to be uncertain. "So government should not be heavy-handedly imposing mandates, claiming they're needed to make workplaces safer."
16. The best thing for government to do might be to go away. "Conservatives tend to think they don’t really need government and it is often something that just gets in the way, so they can laugh about it."
17. All politics is local. "Democrats merely rented the suburbs from the GOP, instead of buying them outright." Delusion, though, is global. "Corporate Democrats Have Only Themselves to Blame." Thus, "The progressive Left got its collective and collectivist butts kicked just about everywhere it was on the ballot."
18. John Kass, "What brand of single malt scotch to pour, to best relish the leftist pundit hysterics on MSNBC and CNN?" And winter is coming. "Some Democrats are no doubt wondering if they’d made a terrible mistake by not standing up to the hard neo-Marxist left that shapes their party when they had the chance."
19. Deconstruct bourgeois norms at your peril. "What is nearly impossible to overcome is the instability—the psychological havoc—created by broken homes."
20. Break out that small violin. "It is yet to be determined whether the egregious limit on the ability of Americans to deduct their state and local taxes against their federal liability — the SALT cap, which targets high-tax states like ours — will remain. For fairness, it should be removed."
21. Yes, Virginia, there is a corona tyranny. "School closures lasted longer in the United States than in most high-income countries, and much longer in blue jurisdictions than in red ones."
22. Make this case before the bond traders stop buying Treasuries. "One of the challenges for libertarians and other believers in smaller government through the midterms will be to focus on the less sexy issues of cutting spending and the size of government rather than going all-in on culture war issues surrounding the K-12 curriculum."
23. Electoral bantustans are the point of the exercise. "Given that Black U.S. voters overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates, it can be difficult to disentangle racial gerrymandering from partisan gerrymandering, which is why progressives warned that the Supreme Court's refusal to outlaw the latter could effectively legalize the former."
24. We'll never lack for more process worshippers to mock. "The Biden administration could have a very hard time explaining to the chief justice why it is entitled to assert emergency powers that exist to address 'immediate' threats, then do nothing with them for four months."
25. The Fourth Turning to come? "After nearly two years of putting up with suspicious-sounding medical excuses from caretakers, [Virginia voters] were fed up with the teachers’ unions whom they had put in charge of babysitting their children while they pursued dual incomes and ordered takeout."
26. Fun facts. First, "If you call a person a racist, it rarely moves them to vote for your side." Second, "If you make unpopular moves, then people won’t vote for you next time." All the Democrats have to do is embrace the Normals, and all Aaron Rodgers has to do is tell the truth.
27. Just leave us alone. "Imposing restrictions that are more severe than the population's actual behavior may make people feel like they are doing something, but what they are doing accomplishes little or nothing to prevent deaths or hospitalizations — the legitimate goals of a public health strategy."
28. Your tax dollars at work. "The definition of vaccine we have posted is problematic." Tell that to Aaron Rodgers.
29. End the corona tyranny. "Panicked Americans surrendered a lot of power during the pandemic. Now they want their country back."
Whew. If this list gets much longer I have to get a hammer and nails and some parchment and find a cathedral door.
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