The weekly round-up of pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. Proclaim Liberty. "I'm never concerned when politicians aren't working, because it's when they're at work that they do all of the damage."
2. It's football season, tune out the neurotics. "Maybe liberalism should come with a warning label at women’s health clinics?"
3. It came to this when higher education reified the denial of coherent beliefs. "It is surely the epitome of professional failure to have spent more than three decades writing, teaching, and speaking about these matters, and to have achieved so little that a nasty little Nazi apologist like Darryl Cooper can win an audience of millions."
5. You're going to use a lot of Burma-Shave cutting through all the ineptitude. "We've never needed Hanlon's razor more."
6. Evergreen. "Things are rarely so bad that decisive action by government officials can’t make things worse."
7. Kamala Harris, more than her voice is annoying. "The more she calls Trump a 'coward,' the more she is seen as a craven projectionist."
8. Sic semper tyrannis. "The 'healthy public conversation' with Robert Reich increasingly appears to be his talking and the rest of us listening." Conversation, dialogue, indoctrination.
9. I don't have enough popcorn! "ACLU Releases Roadmap to Rein in Government Surveillance Under a Harris Administration."
10. Your business is rejoicing! "Nothing speaks to values New Hampshire locals care about more than 500 Bostonians bused in." Was that sold as a Cambridge mixer, with abortions as required?
11. Ronald Reagan called and he wants his platform back. "We know when the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth, and it creates jobs which makes our economy stronger."
12. Finish the job. "Two major wars. A rising China. Hackers everywhere."
13. People respond to incentives. "The thing about modern global supply chains is that nobody is in charge of them. Movements and actions are mostly governed by price signals."
14. Take this observation. "The political/media establishment that lied to you about President Joe Biden will lie to you about the new Democratic nominee Kamala Harris." Take the points, too. "In sum, for some nine years, the media and the left have successfully fed the country a succession of rank deceptions and conspiracies."
15. And the Vikings will win a Super Bowl. "Kristen Welker didn't just 'incorrectly imply' it, she falsely stated it, straight out. You don't just get to make a tweet on X, hope that no one sees it and that covers your false statement. You have to make a correction that you falsely said it to your NBC audience."
16. The White House wants those Dearborn and Minneapolis votes. "Hostage killings and new demands cast doubt in White House that Hamas wants a deal."
17. Maybe. Next question? "Are you comforted to know that the US government is on auto-pilot, a colossal, menacing machine run by ghosts?"
18. First fire at least half the deanlets! "My tank is half-full because I have been volunteering my time to keep up with emails, policy changes, advising, meetings and grant work all summer. At this point, I hope I make it to winter break." Your attitude will be better if they're gone. "The meetings and side projects continue. The emails don’t stop."
19. None dare call it insanity. "Hale’s suicidal tendencies rested on the belief that she would go to heaven and receive a male body."
20. There are so many fools to suffer. "The highly intelligent child must learn to suffer fools gladly — not sneeringly, not angrily, not despairingly, not weepingly — but gladly if personal development is to proceed successfully in the world as it is." Let's not turn gifted and talented students into another disability to be accommodated.
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