CAN THE ERA OF FASHIONABLE NONSENSE GO ON?

Glenn "Aspen Beat" Beaton got off a title that could easily headline the next installation of Friday short Takes.  "Americans are no longer a serious people or culture."  It's worth reading in full as it calls out all sorts of things a serious people would or would not do, for instance, here are five traits of a serious people.

*Would not spend billions on monster pickup trucks.

*Would favor immigration by the best and brightest of the world who respectfully and legally come, rather than favoring the poorest and worst who come illegally.

*Would not contend that the top 1% of earners who pay 40% of income taxes are failing to “pay their fair share.”

*Would not elect to the presidency a man who is clinically demented and criminally corrupt.

*Would not elect to the presidency a man who thinks a clever debate rejoinder is to intimate that his opponent has a small penis (don’t ask how he knows or why that’s on his mind).

It's not quite 95 theses, go read it anyway.