FRIDAY short TAKES.

I want better electoral choices, too.  "I’m old and those guys make me look young."

Stick your "progress" where the sun don't shine!

The weekly roundup of pithy reinforcements of traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.

1.  What was wrong with stating the obvious?

2.  E-T-T-S, generalized.  "Nurse Ratched is now the national poster psycho for these people."

3.  Life is a cabaret, old chum.  "[N]o one in the mainstream media wants to talk about how Monkeypox is spreading because that would mean having to denounce the gay orgy scene."

4.  Fast times at Swamp Middle School.  "There isn’t a high school clique in America more conformist than our elite class."

5.  Yes.  "[A]chieving diversity by getting rid of standards is counterproductive."

6.  Seeking Coach Lombardi.  "We're not good now, but we can do better."  (The refresher.)

7.  Weimar America? "The decadence and rot within the Pride community has been evident for some time."

8.  Withdraw your sanction.  "[T]he academic life of the mind may not be worth the hustle and grind."

9.  Higher education's excess capacity problem.  "[T]here are too many schools that continuously offer a poor return for the majority of students who enroll."

10.  This is Biden's America.  "America, the most powerful nation in the world, is now comparing itself to third-world countries to make itself look favorable."

11.  Partisan primaries distort representation.

12.  Just turf them out.  "Politicians grabbing power isn’t anything new, but keeping Americans in a heightened state of panic to do it is unwise."

13.  Recovery begins when Joe Biden loses his job.  "I want to wish Joe Biden a speedy recovery from COVID. And I want to wish America a speedy recovery from Joe Biden."

14.  Good.  "[Florida's Brightline] will begin tests at speeds of 110 miles per hour."