• This is getting crazy. I have done this sort of thing in the past, and I guess it's time again. Any time I read an essay or other opinion piece that contains the terms "woke" or "cancel culture" I will stop reading (whether from right or left). There is nothing that person has to say that I need to hear.

• Most of the stories in the MSM about Senator Sinema's infamous thumbs down don't address what most people on the left (at least me) are pissed about. It wasn't the vote; it was the glee and relish with which she delivered it, and the fact that it looked like she was performing for Mitch McConnell. She is a public person--something which she chose to be--so it is entirely fitting to judge her for her public actions.  And this one wss pretty awful. (The fact that her spokesperson chose to play the sexism card to deflect from her public action just makes her look even worse.) It is not good reporting to overlook this dynamic.

• I hope I am still saying this a year from now: the Biden presidency is way better than I expected.