I Am Too Old To Know How

When People Get To Speak About Themselves And The Things That Matter To Them, On Their Own Terms, We See Them As Who They Are. They Can't Be Reduced To Objects Of Derision.

When Vladimir Putin Runs Up Against American Power And American Criticism And American Leadership That Reminds Him Of What Russia Isn`t, When He Runs Up Against People Who He Worries Are Funding His Dissidents Or Supporting Protests Against Him, When He Runs Up Against Criticism Of The Way He Runs His Own Country, What He`s Running Up Against Is The State Department.

I Still Think Of Myself As The New Kid.

Two Committees In The House Were Up All Night Long Trying To Get A Version Of The Repeal Of The Affordable Care Act Passed. House Republicans Are Just Fighting Tooth And Nail To Pass It In The House, To Try To Get It Into The Senate, To Try To Make It Then So That The Senate Will Get On Board. But You Know Who One Of The Republican Senators Is Who`s Not On Board With This Anymore? Senator Tom Cotton.

Marine Le Pen Is More Careful Than Her Dad Was About Saying Things Like Denying The Holocaust, Right? But It`s The Same Politics. It`s The Same Modern Anti Anti-immigrant, Anti-and The Semitic, Xenophobic Authoritarian Modern Pseudo-fascism.