Glad the work is getting done.

You can never get out of a ditch that you can’t admit that you’re in.

To what end would he use courage, I wonder?

Getting the phylogeny right is hardly a political consideration.

I appreciate the liberalism, but the fulcrum is missing. The liberal order isn’t governing.

But if you can be effective with this, more power to you.

He’s a wannabe, but he’s gotten far enough and the institutions are supine enough that it’s a four alarm fire.

Terms-schmerms, it’s man the barricades time.

Granting Republican outrage as good faith was an obvious error at the time.

If you’re going to take on an impossible cause, Constitutional governance is a better hill to die on.

One better: the discernible political need to reignite Portland’s historic left-right tension.

He abuses the truth in furtherance of other abuses.

Why not both?

I would argue that many who run for public office are constitutionally ill-suited to defend the system they expected to manage. (like the system itself)

Though the last decade might’ve clued them in.

Probably a major qualification for his current job.

Mafia loves it when they’ve got a handle on you.

He literally owes them everything. A guaranteed factotum.

The ambition keeps growing. After redefining it (successfully as far as the media is concerned ) they’ve decided to use it against any vestige of public integrity or human decency.

Eventually it’ll mean refusing to pay your bribes.

If the models stop chasing “genius” and start admitting what they don’t know and reducing error rates, maybe the cohort of burned early-adopters will be low enough to avoid the bust.

Investments don’t seem to be going that way.