Everything And Everybody Are Pains
Everything And Everybody Are Pains
in the neck
Links are at the end.
I’ve been getting muscle spasms in my neck, according to the doc, which have left me either unable to turn my head or too drugged to think or on occasion both, and also on occasion offer up some breathtaking pain. Not good for writing in any event.
The Bidennaires have cut a debt-limit deal with House negotiators in which Democrats get nothing but self-imposed sorrow while Republicans get to shoot some poors. Masterful work which, you will remember, was entirely unnecessary.
George Will thinks Ron DeSantis should stop trying to run as a less sordid version of Trump and instead run on his record as governor. Like Reagan, only shorter and without the oratorical chops and the ability to approximate a smile. Let’s hope he runs on his record as governor.
Remember when Peggy Noonan swooned over Reagan’s shoe?
I FIRST SAW HIM AS A FOOT, a highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek, perfectly shaped. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe even a little . . . frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from un-smooth roads.
DeSantis will never know the pleasure of a writer romancing his foot.
Hillary Clinton and some other politicos are arguing that Feinstein should remain in the senate, on the judiciary committee, regardless whether she’s functional, so as to keep the majority on the committee. Creeping ever closer to a full-blown Weekend at Bernie’s scenario.
Somehow the minority gets to block the senate majority leader from appointing a replacement to the committee if Feinstein were to resign or die, is the impression conveyed.
Gabe Kaplan had a joke about his (apocryphal) nephew, who at the age of eight still wasn’t talking. He understood everything and he could do his schoolwork, but he couldn’t talk. One morning he was eating breakfast and he said, “cereal cold.” The family were astounded one and all, and while they were celebrating one of them asked the kid why he had never spoken before, and the kid says, “everything was fine til now.”
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton just got hisself impeached by Republicans in the state legislature. He’s been under indictment and federal investigation throughout the entirety of his tenure, but apparently everything was fine til now.
Kim Logan, “Shadow Work;”
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside, “Untamed Beast.”That, comrades, is all I got for now. Be well, take care, share this if you like it and consider subscribing too—it’s free unless you want to pay.