"Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain." - Schiller

As Roseanne Roseannadanna said, it's always something. People are focused right now on the matters you comment on. Don't wait. Carpe diem.

Milton Friedman won the prize in '76. We didn't have to wait for Fama to see the writing on the wall.

You may remember @jimhightower.bsky.social was TX agriculture commissioner for a time. But that wasn't his first race, which was for the railroad commission. (He lost that one, but it positioned him for his Ag Commish race.)

Wars never can fail. They only can be failed.

Raphael Patai's book The Arab Mind for decades has been the go-to text for Westerners seeking to understand this strange custom and others like it.

That's really the key argument. We're fallible. If we make a mistake and kill an innocent person, there's no way of rectifying that mistake.

I was born when Impelliterri was mayor. By my count there have been ten of them in my lifetime. What you say has been true of every one of them.

The one I used was worth every bit as much as you charged me for it.

Tomorrow hath murdered sleep, and therefore Perkins shall sleep no more