He spends millions of dollars to sway the election. Awkwardly Sieg-heils all of us at the inauguration. Leaves his job to go mess up government agencies doing massive damage, kills children, and wastes a bunch of taxpayer money in the process, walks away.

Gets a $1 trillion pay package.

Don't negotiate with terrorists are words to live by.

I really do struggle with understanding that myself. I'm not sure why Holmes ended up doing the things she did, but honesty and concern for others never seemed to factor into any of her decisions.

Not the most important thing, but Prop 50 in California is also temporary and will be revised in 2030 by the independent redistricting commission.

The article focused on political correlations, but I wonder how much of this is the effect of social media in addition to current American culture. Seems like a interesting study.

I don't blame them either. I believe this country is for everyone, but I have doubts about that these days.

another day older and deeper in debt

Thanks, I was actually wondering about this same thing a few days ago.

I don't have a NYT subscription to read, so I appreciate the summary.

It used to be so hard for me to call up people I didn't know, I used to rehearse talking a lot before I could bring myself to doing it (and often still do). I do often find it very useful and usually pleasant to be able to call and talk to someone.

You'll have to forgive Eric, he's not a Christian, he just plays one on podcasts.

Just wonderful that these are the conversations and debates we're having these days.

Done!

Analysis.

The bigger problem is the deregulation that led to the television climate we have today, in which only 6 companies own 90% of the nation's media.

They seem to be worse than they were after settling with Dominion over their false election claims.

I wonder how many of these CEOs got a raise this year?