Did I Just Miss the Signal? “Got the code book?” So Minnesota Governor and 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Walz said he was picked for the ticket because he could “code talk to white guys.” “I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease,” Walz said at the event Monday.” (The Hill, Walz on why he was picked as Harris running mate: ‘I could code talk to white guys’) Code Talk?…
The Real American Divide. The real conflict in America today isn’t between conservatives and “liberals” (which everywhere else in the world are called Social Democrats.) It’s not between Hawks and Doves, and It’s increasingly less about Democrats and Republicans. The traditional parties have realigned, and the gap is now between two groups I’m calling Normies and Abbies. “Normies?” very simple: normal people. Oooh!! Scary! “Who defines “normal,” you say? Good question, because the definition of normal changes and…
Corruption and It’s Costs. So how is corruption like a leaky pipe? Answer: stuff goes in one end but it doesn’t all come out the other. We use the word “corruption” to mean a lot of different things, but commonly to mean dishonesty in organizations—particularly government. “Corruption” generally means people stealing stuff or taking bribes to do their jobs. So, here’s the pipe: An organization, say, the Boy Scouts or your local town, has a job to do:…
You know what an equation is? It’s a “mathematical statement.” Math is a language, like French or Spanish, that lets you express things that are hard to say other ways. Think “C’est la vie, ma Cherie, pour toujours l’amour,” which can be expressed in non-French but doesn’t sound as good. The equation is about two things that equal each other. It looks like this: A = B –Example: 2 + 2 = 4. The 2 + 2…
Christmas came early for me. Santa slid down my chimney on November 6th, 2024. That’s the day America chose to turn the page from the corrupt and sclerotic Democratic Party rule, toward something different. And now things are going to change. What is that something? Well, President Trump 2.0, for starters. What will that mean? I’ll bet a vigorous reopening of the economy, an all-out reform of our uncontrolled bureaucratic and regulatory administrative—or “Deep State,” Tough-On-Crime polices including…
Harris may have “blitzed Trump” but polls are showing the post-debate up-for-grabs voters are breaking for Trump. Harris had a chance to score a first impression as presidential candidate and she didn’t make the sale. She never answered a question, she didn’t positively outline any plans of hers, her visuals were terrible (the smirking, smug condescension was off-putting to men and women alike. This hurt Hillary 8 years ago, why repeat the mistake?) Trump is Trump, he’s thoroughly defined, nobody…
Would you mind telling me who IS running the country? “Abby Normal.”
Its September now. The 2024 Presidential contest is into the abbreviated arc of fall. After the historic and unprecedented stutter-step and pratfall of President Joe Biden and his replacement by VP Kamala Harris in an intra-party coup, the race is on. But the race between who? Yeah, Donald Trump v Harris, GOP vs Democrats. But who are these two parties, these two directions? In all the shocks and hurricane-force events, one central development has been overlooked: the parties themselves…
Every now and then you read about a recall of bad food. Some company’s product is discovered with botulism, contamination, rotted stuff canned or packaged. The company throws out all their stuff, cleans and purifies their plants, submits to state inspection and clean bills of health. All the markets that bought the stuff purge their shelves and trash it. That’s how you keep consumer confidence that what you’re selling isn’t poison garbage. Except where it comes to…