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Gift link (hope this is okay, Tom)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

And now the part that we all need to hear:

"Americans have learned that guardrails are easily destroyed. Restoring them will take time—because they have to be repaired by each of us, one person at a time, making small but important decisions about how we want to live."

"...it is to remind people that Hegseth is acting like a teenager and trying to distract Americans with idiotic slurs about fat soldiers because Pete Hegseth is terrible at his job.

Like most things that require some adulting, this approach is emotionally unsatisfying."

"The right answer now to the faux-macho silliness of someone such as Pete Hegseth is not to produce clever memes and nicknames for the secretary of defense..."

Here in Arizona, the time stayed the same. But I changed.

Your good humor is a superpower I seek for myself