Trinity River, Great Trinity Forest, Dallas

📷: Bill Holston

RIP, Ted Olsen

Executive power is important, and we respect it. But it has to be done the right way. It has to be done in an orderly fashion so that citizens can understand what is being done and people whose lives have depended on a governmental policy aren’t swept away arbitrarily and capriciously.

A principled and gifted lawyer and public servant. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Set the Wayback Machine, Sherman

Say, kids! Remember that old holiday, I think it was called Thanksgiving? It was a personal favorite. So extraordinary to observe a national day of gratitude. Of course, Capitalismmas (i.e., not Christmas) erased that tired old giving-thanks day long ago.

Snake on Wheels

Laura Olin

[I keep coming back to] the fundamental text that is “Why must we go on?” / “Because there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”

Is all this cringe? Undoubtedly; but I think we’ve entered a time that requires deep earnestness.

True in every era; yet, it’s a smack in the face

… the narrative on which many of us grew up no longer applies.

– Joan Didion - (h/t @ayjay)

…well, we’ll live right on…

From my friend, Dan Wilson:

… whatever the outcome… “well, we will live right on.” We will all go about doing what we do, get the kids off to school, go to work, do the laundry, and go about our lives. And that is as it should be because the greatest impact on our world does not come out of Washington anyway. It never has. Ultimately, it comes from each of us and how we live out our ordinary lives, our good deeds, humility, loving our neighbor, and loving God.

My Kind of Guys

I really love this pic from The Anonymous Project

Boredom and the Struggle

Jonah Goldberg:

I think Fukuyama was right about liberal democratic capitalism being the answer to the questions mooted by Marx, Hegel, Hitler, Tocqueville, and everyone else. And he was right about the problems created by liberalism’s victory. The solution to those problems is not to overthrow liberalism, but to restore the ecosystems of meaning that sustain it.