Curtain Call

Sure, Rob. All the Democrats would have to do to get the votes of moderates who don't like the boorishness of Donald Trump is to get away from their nutty, Lefty primal screaming.

But that's way too much to ask for them. They already thought that Hillary Clinton was too conservative and Obama was a disappointment for the Left as well.

It's a bridge too far for the Democrats to act sane for more than a few minutes at a time.

‘Speaking of craven.....introduce our next guest’. Hahaha

My non-woke five year old was in the room as James did his first commercial. She heard “comfortable, comfortable, and comfortable” and said those aren’t three words; it should be comfortable, warm, and goodnight sleep. I guess she wanted three different words.

Between time stamps 24 and 25 minutes Kristen Soltis Anderson argues persuasively that the right has not made its case to millennials and that millennials have been credulous to socialist politics by default. That remark made me remember my own transition---during the Carter administration when I was in my twenties---from adolescent infatuation with progressivism to the time (abut my thirtieth birthday) when I became an avowed conservative. Milton Friedman was the biggest influence on me during that period. Why do we not hear more about Friedman nowadays? Or see more links to his many great riffs that debunk so many premises of progressive economics? I realize Friedman is no longer with us but, then again, neither is Hayek and we hear plenty about Hayek these days.

Possible answer to my own question: Friedman's riffs are available at lengths as short as, say, two to three minutes on YouTube. Could it be that such a duration qualifies as long form compared to a tweet? Is the attention span of a millennial really so short that a two to three minute riff by Friedman is too long to endure?

Somebody sent me a letter, which I'm leaking to you now, in which it is claimed, that at a high school party, when Senator Diane Feinstein was 17, she behaved like a mean girl. But nobody can be sure for certain, because it was 1950, and everyone who might have been there, except for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has died of old age.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of Feinstein's constituency have had her as their representative throughout their entire adulthood.