Our Next President

I'm putting this up as a prayer. Just as every vote is a prayer. Every time we get up and go to work, it's a prayer. Every time we look at a kid or a teenager or anyone younger that we are, and wonder about their future - it's a prayer.

We live on the promise of love and the bonds of honor.

🤞🏻😎🤞🏻

Overheard

The greatest challenge

in the age of the internet

occurs when you learn enough

to believe you're right,

but stop before you learn enough

to know you're wrong.

Closing

Today's Dana

Some pretty great insight in this.

Today's Headache

Math makes my brain hurt, but there's a kind of mystical aspect to it that matches anything I've ever marveled at. Oceans, mountains, clouds, kids, critters - anything.

It's magic explained.

Today's Quote

Knowing your own darkness

is the best method for dealing

with the darkness of others.

--Carl Jung

Today's Vic

Lauren Boebert may be headed for a crash. Charlie Cook has moved this race from Likely Red to Leans Red.

Today's Belle

In 2008 they told McCain that if he was more than 5 points underwater with women, he was gonna lose. He was, and he did.

And I'll say it again:

Women will save us. All we have to do is stay the fuck outa their way and let 'em do it.

Go get 'em, ladies.

I'll hold your stuff

while you fuck 'em up.

I'm right behind you,

and I'll be here when you're done.

It's Creeping Up On Us

When the word "democracy" becomes a partisan term.

When you're a partisan hack if you're in favor of a Pro-Democracy Movement.

When resisting authoritarianism makes you "unpatriotic".

When you're quiet in the face of someone threatening violence in support of bigotry.

When you hedge your bets just in case the bad guys win.

We're being trained. This is the run up to minority rule.

Overheard

We're the best informed civilization ever,

and we're on our way to dying out

due to profound ignorance.