Some Thoughts

• The faux controversy about the debates has no interest for me. I don't watch them. They give me nothing.
• The Hamas attack on October 7 was a terrible thing. The ensuing "war" has the US and the world talking about Palestinian rights in a way that I can hardly remember in my lifetime. Both of these things can be true at the same time.
• If this bullshit "antisemitism" law passes the Senate and is signed by Biden, it will be the straw that broke the camel's back as far as my voting for Biden.
• I grew up and went to school in the 1950s and '60s. We weren't really taught this, but underlying a lot of things was the idea that certain people in certain positions were smarter and more billiant than the rest of us. A good example was the Supreme Court, full of Ivy Leaguers and brilliant jurists. Then came a bunch of desisions and theories from these people for which one didn't need an Ivy League education to call "bullshit" (sorry, had to use that word again). Money is "speech"; regulation is "taking"; racist gerrymandering is just "politics"; et al. Anyway, the good part of this--if you want to call it that--is that it gives ordinary people the confidence to know that these brilliant people can be just as ordinary as the rest of us, they just know how to use bigger and more arcane words to mask their biases and bigotry.
• Some asshole NFL kicker is a mysogenist. Why is this even news?