“First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff.” Sad to say, that 2005 account from USA Today reflects not only the behavior…
Jim Jordan, cover your nose. A full-grown individual should know the function of a mask in a pandemic. There was the Ohio congressman, however, in full 3-year-old mode, his nasal instrument hanging out as he berated Anthony Fauci. Jordan was reprising a tiresome Republican act: assailing…
Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. All in the valley of Death rode the 10 thousand. “Forward the White Brigade!” Apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson, but a certain full-of-self Republican in Texas has made the appropriation too easy. Last week the…
Wanted: a new location for the Major League All-Star Game. Qualifications: (1) must love baseball; (2) must show fidelity to self-government, meaning opposition to chicanery that makes it harder for poor people to vote. Georgia, you’re out, says Commissioner Rob Manfred. Hey, MLB, pick my state, Colorado. It has done great…