FRIDAY short TAKES.

Well, that debate happened.  "Kamala reminded me of my ex-wife and I was never married before. Men are not going to want to endure four years of her schoolmarmy condescension."

First, let us cheer another Boneyard Win, and another visit from Big Boy.

The weekly round-up of pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.

1.  Preach it!  "the best thing government officials can do is nothing."

2.  To our continued distress.  "The one option you won’t hear much about in Washington is finding ways to reduce it."

3.  Democrats preserving disorder.  "It is enough to make the Chinese Central Committee blush."

4.  Thanks, suckers.  "The political/media establishment that lied to you about President Joe Biden will lie to you about the new Democratic nominee Kamala Harris."

5.  Wisdom from Crazy Bernie?  "Kamala is just saying whatever she has to so that she can get elected, so why should they have any trust in their leaders?"

6.  Like the Oakland she claims to be from, there's no there there.  "Unwilling to break publicly with Biden—to criticize his handling of say, inflation, immigration, or Israel—she has simply positioned herself as a younger version of him."

7.  He didn't.  "The best Trump can do is make the case for the silent majority that they need more than just making history. How long are they expected to care only about that?"

8.  We meme to call attention.  "Most Americans have had it with the elites’ effort to remake our country by bringing in tens of millions (ultimately, hundreds of millions) of third world immigrants who they think will become loyal Democratic voters, but who in the meantime massively disrupt our society and inflict enormous costs on taxpaying and working class Americans."  Is it working?  "Coastal cosmopolitan media didn't care about the carnage wrought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats."

9.  There are laws of conservation in economics.  "If these trade deficits were a bane to Americans, you should encourage foreigners to choose some currency other than the dollar to use for global reserves. That you instead threaten foreigners for their suspected desire to abandon the dollar as a reserve currency reveals only that you are frighteningly clueless about international commerce."

10.  Ever hear of the median voter, Economist writers?  "On average, the tipping-point states are whiter and poorer than the country as a whole. All this shapes candidates’ stances."  Yeah, that's what the Framers intended.

11.  You overdose on the sanctimony.  "It’s like spending time with the kid who sits in the front of the class, always raising his hand with the right answer."

12.  Her values have not changed.  "At no time since this news broke has Kamala or her campaign backed off of this wackadoodle belief."

13.  Evergreen.  "The biggest problem for Trump last night was Trump."  Trump's greatest enemy was himself.

14.  Bingo.  “We probably would have been better off if he did even less and went on vacation more.  Sadly, he repealed President Trump’s border policies, lifted sanctions on Iran that enriched them, and implemented anti-energy policies that drove up the cost gas, food and utility bills. If he just left things alone, things would be better.”

15.  Squishes for Harris.  "Many of those hundreds of staffers helped craft what are widely acknowledged to be two of the most impressive concession speeches in American history."

16.  Protest with your vote.  "Americans know what living under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden is like."

17.  Vote early and often.  "Democrats consider voter fraud an important part of their electoral strategy."

18.  I want to see receipts.

19.  Complex adaptive systems, doing what they do.  "While we know a lot about the weather and how hurricanes form, what we don't know far exceeds our stored knowledge of how complex, chaotic systems behave to create deadly storms or a bright, sunny day."

20.  No duh.  "‘Rather than correcting stereotypes, diversity training too often reinforces them and breeds resentment,’ the professors wrote."

21.  Now close the sale.  "They had four years to prove to America that they could make the country better than it was under Trump, and they failed."

22.  Football is blocking and tackling.  "The Huskies were the more physical, more fundamentally sound, more deserving team Saturday."

Just kick the field goal, then fly the flag.