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Which Vision: Sunrise or Carnage?David Brooks, quoting Michael Strain
A Trump win would play into the narrative of Americans as helpless victims. The economics of grievance is ineffective, counterproductive, and corrosive, eroding the foundations of prosperity. Messages matter. Tell people that the system is rigged, and they will aspire to less. Champion personal responsibility, and they will lift their aspirations. Promoting an optimistic vision of economic life can increase risk tolerance, ambition, effort, and dynamism.
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Moo, Baa, Cluck, OinkThe late, great Kinky Friedman:
I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
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Hate the Sinner, Hate the Sin /David Frum, via Nick Cataggio:
Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic in American life.
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Una Escaramuza - Mothered by Aunts and Horses
Photo: Constance Jaeggi (a tip of the Hatlo Hat to @ayjay)
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Kräuterbuch - “Book of Herbs” | Johannes Hartlieb - 1462
Hosta [really?!] 🌱
Listening to Lucinda (and cicadas)
Heather Cox Richardson:
- Trump said that some Democratic states allow people to execute babies after they’re born and that every legal scholar wanted Roe v. Wade overturned — both fantastical lies.
- Trump said that the deficit is at its highest level ever and that the U.S. trade deficit is at its highest ever: both of those things happened during his administration.
- Trump lied that there were no terrorist attacks during his presidency; there were many.
- Trump said that Biden wants to quadruple people’s taxes — “pure fiction,” according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale
*Mark Edmonson, Harpers, January 2023
At the parade
Be there or be square
Lake View
Dream Swaps
ducks – elegant and effortless … are eyeing … boatloads of … Dream … swaps
A Trip to the Thrift Shop #4
Man versus Nature
Early Walk, Blues, Grays, and Greens, June 28 2024 /
Andy Rooney Takes a Nap
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