Mattie Remains Delinquent

As always, there is no good reason for not posting, but...it's busy season at work, I am staying up late, I have much to do, and there are times -- like last night -- when I end up crashing on the floor.  Alas.

There was an election, and we lost.  Horribly. There were candidate quality issues, to be sure, but the margins...well, as I told some people at church, when you campaign on one thing, and then you do the exact opposite of what you said you would do... there is not much to say.  The worst of it is, of course, the collateral damage; we lost OH, TX, a bunch of good reps, the bench is gone, and even in places like SC< MS, and TX...well, those senators will be there a while.  And the next cycle is not red-friendly (not that this one was).  How do you come back from this?  It takes a while; unless the Donald is a never-before-seen miracle man.  Sigh.  The other thing, from OH, is that Acton... he decisions during the pandemic really were questionable -- really caused generational damage -- and nothing will ever come of it; no accountability, no anything.  Alas.  We will have a long two, four, six years?  Sigh.

Marriage Nihilism - by C. Bradley Thompson

Funny, sort of; Saturday a friend came over to discuss his troubled marriage...to a man.  His troubled open marriage, which I guess is a thing in the gay community.  On the one hand, I felt badly for him, and tried to console him as much as possible, but on the other...it was all I could do not to say "Gee, we had a definition of marriage that worked for generations, you people ripped it up, and now you complain that it is difficult?"  I mean, I realize they are Democrats, and their morals and values -- insofar as they exist -- are some alien thing, but...  then Sunday I spent some time with a newer friend having wife issues.  Sigh.  I guess I am glad I largely avoided this in my life, though it does not seem it now.

The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain - WSJ
This is a concern for us, but 1) we won't be hearing about it now; and 2) as I so often say (borrowed from George Bernard Shaw), the government that robs Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.

Equally as bad was tonight's Duke loss.  Blackwell -- the new and ballyhooed transfer -- played poorly.  Duke -- with an offseason to work out the problems that ended last year's season -- committed 10,000 turnovers, made poor shot selection, and was physically handled throughout the game.  I guess this gets the perfect season out of the way early, but it does not bode well for the future.  Or even this month.