Squatter-in-Chief 0
Apparently, because Mar-a-Lago is legally a “club,” it cannot also be a permanent residence.
The story goes on to report that there is history of friction between Mar-a-Lago and its neighbors. Follow the link for details.
“The Tribe That Lost Its Head” 0
Writing for The Roanoke Times, Llewellyn King marvels at the malice. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
We are on a war footing against COVID-19. It has invaded our homeland, and it is slaughtering us. Nearly 300,000 are dead and the vast hospital network in the United States is overwhelmed.
(snip)
The first line of defense against this common enemy, this indiscriminate killer, is a simple piece of layered cloth or paper held over the nose and mouth by cloth or elastic strings. It is a face mask, the simplest of defensive weapons.
But there is in the United States a tribe that has lost its head, reminiscent of Nicholas Monserrat’s great novel of 1956.
Know Them by the Company They Keep That Keeps Them
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Farron wonders why that, even if Kelly Loeffler does not know neo-Nazi Chester Doles (and Farron concedes that she likely does not), Chester Doles is a Loeffler fan-boy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Friends should be polite to each other.
Great Moments in Zoom 0
You can’t make this stuff up (and you wouldn’t want to).
Meta: PVF Endorsements 0
I have removed the PVF Endorsements item from the sidebar, as the Electoral College has cast its ballots.
It will return for Virginia’s off-year election next fall.
Both Sides Don’t 0
E. J. Montini explains that Joe Biden cannot heal this fractured nation, because Democrats are not the ones who fractured it. A bit from his article:
And they won’t go away unless Republicans simply … stop.
Stop the false accusations. Stop the incendiary hyperbole. Stop the attacks on the very democratic institutions that put them in office.
You can’t incite and enflame people’s worst instincts and then pretend to condemn violence. It’s like an arsonist returning to the scene as a firefighter.
Six Degrees of Dr. Jill Biden 0
Paths cross can be adjacent in unexpected ways.
Second son met Dr. Jill Biden when he was taking courses at our local community college when we lived in Delaware, where he was born and raised, though I don’t know that he took any classes from her. At the time, Joe Biden was Vice President, so she had Secret Service protection, but she was still teaching.
I trained as an historian and, at one time, aspired to get a doctorate. I didn’t, because I found in graduate school that academia and I were not a good mix (honestly, some of those folks will fight to the death over a semicolon), but I never lost my love of history as a discipline.
But, by heavens, had I earned that doctorate, I would not have eschewed the title, because it means something.
I learned how much it can mean in my year of graduate school (and from the many professors I had who had a “Ph. D.” after their names and who taught me well at The College of William and Mary in Virginia and at the University of Virginia.)
Afterthought:
It is never gracious to belittle the accomplishments of others.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society,” Special Florida Man Edition 0
(More at the link.)
Afterthought:
A good lawyer might just make this defense work . . . .
Courting Disasters 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s reaction to the failure of the Supremes to “do us a favor though.” (Warning: short ad at the end. I have no knowledge of the product in question.)
