Here's mellow. A Hawaiian lullaby.
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Nuns rarely obtain green cloaks worthy of an Orient Express outing. Just saying.

Oh hell. Mele Kalikimaka!

The Days of Our Lives

It would be nice if the American Bar Association wrote an amicus brief explaining why it's a bad idea to turn the federal courts into a processing service for shakedown gangsters.

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It's worse than retrograde.

Man, 1969 is looking better every day.

Hey, I'm all for wealth redistribution, break-up of monopolies, etc. Bu I'm 76 and reasonably acquainted with the American people. They're not dying to wage class warfare. They prefer opportunity and fairness. What works for them are ad hoc/local/loose associations and a big tent Democratic Party.

Not challenging the status quo? Ever heard of a "sanctuary city?" Or local opposition to AI? Or deadly chemicals in the water supply? All politics is local. That's where you get your feet wet and learn how to make a difference. Because we just can't wait for that great Marxist epiphany in the sky.

There are approximately 19,500 incorporated cities, towns, and villages in the United States. Nearly all of them have charters for local governments that validate our capacity for self-rule. That's where our most fundamental politics reside. Better politics is not an illusion. It's steady work.

And do what? Summon some other magical countervailing power? Liberty in a democratic republic affords citizens the right to assemble a winning political persuasion. The way out of bad politics is more and better politics.

Thanks for posting this, Hal.

Will six Supreme Court justices evince a similar regard for the opinions of the American people? Or are they out of step with public opinion? Americans today fear their democracy is threatened by a mad chief executive and a coterie of plutocrats. Will our top jurists summon "a decent respect?"

Our seminal founding statement, the Declaration of Independence, said "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation..." From the start, the Founders insisted that the opinions of America's colonists carried weight. 1/2

Named that dog Szeged in case he ever wanted to find his way home.

I crossed the Danube near Szeged, Hungary on route to Yugoslavia. Suddenly, a dog appeared on the bridge. I waved to the dog and said silly things like, "go home." But the dog just followed me. Through Yugoslavia, then Bulgaria, and the fateful train from Sofia. The dog had no papers, just ambition.