The Phoenix Metro Area may be too hot to live in, but its food selection is far superior to anything I've been able to find in Colorado. I will be settling for hour+ drives into Denver for my Chicago-style sandwich fixes.
On this 4th, it’s worth noting that the Copa America is another demonstration of why this country is worth fighting for. Every nation participating has fans in the stands who live here. Immigrants or descendants of immigrants who are now Americans. Or may hope to soon be.
Kind of appropriate that Britain booted out the Conservatives on the 4th of July which is, of course, the day Vicksburg surrendered to U.S. Grant. I guess some other stuff also happened on this date
Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
something I've been thinking about lately that might be useful to some of y'all right now is that sometimes when you can't muster any optimism or hope you can decide to continue fighting anyway on behalf of others who still have some
The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
You heard it here first folks. When engineers say what the radius of a highway curve should be, that’s communism. Public health rules for safe drinking water? Communism.
One of the more fascinating things of the past few days is seeing which journalists and media folks are arguing for Biden’s departure and which are pushing back against that idea.
God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
This election is one big PolSci experiment
- Do debates matter
- How much does campaigning matter
- Can there be a historical realignment w/o warning
- Do fundamentals matter
- Are numbers real
We're about to find out