TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-attended-wedding-stephen-miller-055629124.html
Who could marry such a venal character?
Oh, sorry, got it, she already works in the Administration...
Robert Samuelson in WaPo on the frailty of the nuclear family...
The larger issue is how we judge our times. We are constantly deluged with economic studies and statistics, implying that economic outcomes are the only ones that matter. The reality is that any national scorecard of well-being must take a much broader view. How well families do in preparing children for adulthood and how well they transmit important values is a much higher standard for success.
Margaret Renkl in NYT on the power of pictures....
But so long as we continue to be moved, even unconsciously, by the iconic photographs of our age, there is hope. So long as photographs — and novels and poems and songs and plays and paintings and every other kind of art that filters the world through the moral imagination — teach us to see what we might otherwise overlook, there is a chance for change.
COSO IDL Monday theme, Boomtown Rats style
I Don't Like Mondays
David Ignatius in WaPo with the under reported story of an emergent Afghan settlement...
Afghanistan teaches the searing lesson that hope for peace and stabilization is not a strategy — and that American presidents regret making promises about Afghan success they can’t deliver.
Fighting exclusion while building electorally necessary solidarity isn’t easy. But for Democrats, there is no other option.
EJ Dionne showing the options for Dems...
Diversity is a source of pride for Democrats. But that pride must be matched by patience among the party’s ideological factions and its many different social groups, and by an embrace of the equal dignity of all members. The most important philosophical battles and group conflicts will be fought out among Democrats because Republicans, by the very nature of who they are, stand detached from these struggles.
Liz may not win this, but she does have Grace...
“I . . . want to congratulate my friend and colleague, Amy Klobuchar,” Warren declared, “for showing just how wrong the pundits can be when they count a woman out.”
It was part of an eloquent call for party unity in which Warren warned Democrats not to engage in “a long bitter rehash of the same old divides in our party,” and spoke with concern about a willingness “to burn down the rest of the party in order to be the last man standing.”
Hey, It's Monday peeps...
WHERE IS THE FREAKIN ENERGY THIS MORNING?
Feeling like this place has an air valve leaking...
“There are powerful historical reasons heterosexual marriages are subject to more tension, miscommunication and resentment than same-sex relationships,” Stephanie Coontz writes in the Op-Ed “How to Make Your Marriage Gayer.”
Full Disclosure: Mikster and I are both in our third marriages, this one is over 20 years and continuing...
For me, it was about being less of a cad and more of a joiner, oh, and also stopping keeping score about household stuff
“Regardless of how good they are at controlling the internet,” Xu added, “they can’t keep all 1.4 billion mouths in China shut.”
COVUD-19 may turn out to be another gift for Trump...The denigration of China will fall into Trump's brutish lap
Xu’s take is harsher, and his essay is reverberating around China through surreptitious copies. “Faced with this virus, the Leader has flailed about,” Xu wrote. “Although everyone looks to The One for the nod of approval, The One himself is clueless.”
I think that Sanders, for instance, could be a problematic nominee, given his self-identification as a democratic socialist and his stances on fracking, immigration and health insurance. But I also think it’s silly to say he has no chance to beat Trump.
It wasn’t so long ago that people were claiming that the other moderates had no chance to beat Biden.
David Leonhardt in NYT with a reality check...
But the early voting suggests that this analysis is more wrong than right. The problem wasn’t Biden. It was the way other Democrats overreacted to him. They committed a classic error of presidential politics, believing that campaigns were more predictable than they are.
Don’t jump to premature conclusions — or premature despair, if you consider Trump a threat to democracy.
The Revenge and Retribution Tour continues...NY in this case
The administration is free to pursue legal action against sanctuary jurisdictions, as the Justice Department did this week in suing New Jersey, California and King County, Wash. It’s another matter to carry out a campaign of naked political revenge and extortion while citing hollow threats to the homeland.
Morning Nauts
Ken-Dogger: Morning Fritz, why the look?
Fritz: Dude, you see the time?
KD: Why yes, later than usual isn’t it?
F: Yes, what gives?
KD: Guess I’m sleeping better…
maybe it’s the calisthenics
F: Maybe so, you think I need to start these “C” things?
KD: Nope, you’ve got that sleeping thing down…You’re my model
F: ZZZZZZZZZZZ
TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017