Sycophantic Republicans go overboard in supporting everything the wrecker has said, and what they think he might perhaps say soon.

The wrecker threatened to dun NATO members for not paying enough by encouraging Putin to destroy them.

Other NATO members should contribute their share to he common defense, but being bullied by the US would feel more like a protection racket than like protection from Russia. Thus, the wrecker is seriously trying to wreck NATO while making it deniable.

*The super-rich got that way through monopolies.*

I don't believe rich people inherently deserve to keep riches even if they have "earned" them. When they have done so, it is a point arguing that they deserve a bigger part rather than a smaller part, but does not imply that they deserve to keep all of it.

The system of trading and business is very useful, and eliminating it would be foolish, as the Soviet Union and China have at times demonstrated. It does not follow that we should bow down to the invisible hand and place business above the most important things, as Boeing and Pfizer do. We must have the strait jacket ready for when it goes nuts.

Millions of Americans are obsessed with a celebrity couple and tossing their money away on conditioning themselves to feel even more obsessed.

It's a trap — stay out!

I heard the song, Daisy a Day, on an oldies radio station this week. I had never heard it before. It's sweet and sad, and I drifted with the feelings. But then, when I heard the line

I'll love you until the rivers run still.

I was struck by despair, because that is now. The rivers are running still already!

The Mississippi and the Rhine were so dry last summer that they could no longer carry shipping. And the Panama Canal didn't have enough water supply to operate normally.