- Show this to the innocents in your circle the next time one of them says if you obey the law you have nothing to fear. Whole family loses everything and goes to jail for … failure to speak Spanish when the feds use a Spanish speaker to frame them.
- Should we ban the word “trillion”? Naw. Good think piece, though.
- “Pry the Big Gulp from My Cold, Dead Fingers.” (H/T MJR)
- Sheldon Richman gives another good whack to David Brooks.
- “Why My Child Will Be Your Child’s Boss.” (Hint: because my child isn’t being turned into a risk-averse ninny.) (Tip o’ hat to JS)
- Five awful (and common) experiences we never get over. This is so true.
- Dog goes blind from abuse. Baseball team adopts. Your awwwww story of the day — although in this case, the awwww comes only after a fair share of grrrrr and &^^%$# and how can some &^%%$s stand to live inside their own skin.
Why anyone would get into the business of “legally” selling guns is beyond me. But I hate it when gun sellers are punished for the essential service they provide. Stupid gun “laws”.
My daughter is “allowed” to do dangerous things. Things that make my heart skip a beat. But I want her to be independent and competent. I don’t have “child scissors” for her to use. I let her dig in the dirt. I let her climb and jump. I only rescue her when she runs to me; not against her will.
I’ve lived through some of those awful experiences that “break” people. But, maybe “broken” is a misnomer. Perhaps the real term should be “educated in reality”. Some of those things are things everyone needs to learn, and few of us learn from the pain of others.
>but is Brooks suggesting that our misleaders know more, do better, and see more clearly than the rest of us?
He’s probably just comparing them to himself. I long ago concluded that many journalists are the only people that could make most politicians look competent.