Indiana’s governor is recruiting un-vaxxed Chicago cops. So Indiana will be known as the measles and mumps state henceforth.

When you see Reps. Boebert, Gaetz, Gohmert, and friends doing strange things on the floor of the House of Representatives, remember this: their performances will be in the public record for all time. Government documents will be entertaining reading for future students of Congress.

Gotta have at least one Deadhead in a list of the top 75 of any activity.

Once again, former President Carter is urging Americans to buy less, which calls to mind his “malaise” speech. Carter’s neo-Puritan anti-materialism was mocked by luxury class journalists and politicians, as well as by the corporate suppliers of the consumerist addiction. If Carter had read Daniel Bell’s book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, he would have learned the consumerist genie had already been permanently unbottled [sic]. Instead he read Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism (according to academic legend).

It seems like every hour another political pundit finds another way to extend the half-life of the “Dems in Disarray” pre-packaged narrative. Which makes me think these pundits really think it is too bad there are fifty, diverse state constituencies that need to be represented by Democrats. I’m surprised none of them spell out the obvious conclusion of their constant lamentations: Democrats should become a centralized vanguard party to streamline decisions. Worked for V. I. Lenin and Mitch McConnell.

I finally found the proper theme song for today’s “progressives.”