Yes many bad things are happening in the United States and around the world. But it is your choice to be entirely consumed by that and not by many of the other wonderful aspects of the modern world

I think there’s a decent argument that probably by spring 2021, even without hindsight, the schools should’ve been reopened. But those claiming it was obvious they shouldve never been closed in 2020 are Monday morning quarterbacking the shit out of how to handle a novel plague

Do big city mayorships attract the worst kinds of politicians to run for them or are they just cursed jobs with bad incentives and limited power?

But it goes both ways depending on which part of the country you’re at. California repeatedly and overwhelmingly elects Democrats to the state and federal level yet repeatedly votes down propositions involving tax increases, bond measures, and, this year, for harsher criminal punishments