These will be the final Friday short takes until after Three Kings. I'm going to take a break from events, whether events will give me a break is another matter.
1. It is time to abolish "emergency" corona powers. Make it past time? "Maybe it's time to break them."
2. May the corona tyranny go the way of the 55 mph speed limit. "It’s time for people to ignore that false speed limit and use their own judgment in driving safely, until Covid-19 policy is back in the hands of sensible people."
3. Never again? "What has this freakish experiment in federalist dictatorship taught us?"
4. Cracked icons.
5. Do not be deceived. "There are no 1967 Stingrays in the Build Back Better utopia. "
6. We're noticing its absence. "A hallmark of a free society is a free press."
7. Live not by lies. "That is not valor, that is vandalism." And we will be judged by the monuments we've destroyed.
8. Why Raggedy Ann ages a year each month. "I understand she’s just a mindless mouthpiece for a senile president, but you can tell she’s starting to crack. Piling untruth on top of untruth has to be grating."
9. Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. "The primary political battle is to get the right people in office, first in the midterms, then in 2024, all while continuing to push for election integrity on every front."
10. Deny coherent beliefs, enjoy the incoherence. " When our political class can no longer distinguish between citizen and non-citizen, male and female, a more muscular defense of truth is needed."
11. Small children think in binaries. A sampling: "You don’t get to be 'against the rich' if the richest people in the country fund your party in order to preserve their government-sponsored monopolies. You are not 'a supporter of free speech' if you oppose free speech for people who disagree with you."
13. Mrs. 'Arris goes to Paris. "Harris’s pain has to be the feel-good story of the day."
14. The latest in unlimited class spinnaker reaching? "Shouldn’t we get supply chains sorted out again before returning to the era of Horatio Hornblower?"
15. What's missing from this assessment? "America faces such possible disasters unless the political system can detach itself from the massive corruption of corporate lobbying and campaign financing by the rich."
16. History rhymes. "The policy responses to post-1965 mau-mau were lax policing, lavish welfare for single mothers, racial quotas and preferences. The results were sky-high crime, broken families and overmatched students on campuses." Da capo al fine: "All this hearkens directly back to 1979-1981, the late Carter years and the peculiar emotional combination of confusion, powerlessness and rage that seemed to emanate from the liberal ruling class when its off-the-shelf answers to pressing questions just didn’t assure anyone that they knew what they were doing."
17. Amen. "Please Stop With the Omicron Panic."
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