There is also the problem that football is a lousy, dangerous (not to mention tedious) game that inflicts far too many injuries, including presumably CTE. I do not know whether it is worse than boxing, but it is certainly close. I no longer watch nor follow football. And yes to corrupt and cowardly.

By the midterms? What the hell does he think - that they can vote?

I get suspicious of people who think their position is "obvious." Besides, the center is already too far to the right. Obviously.

It is probably true that wokeness has cost us elections. That said, tho, what The Times calls centrists we used to call conservatives, and that is part of the problem.

No. They are that shrewd. The far right is brilliant at name-calling.

Yes, but "Let them eat cake" is too cynical for me. They did not know that was what they were electing.

Use required lesson plan. (Contributed by My Wife the French Teacher.)

Yes. And as long as they are afraid of the pres they will do nothing, almost no matter how bad it gets. Sad indeed!

So the amendment is useless?

Virtue signaling, at best.

What they do not understand (or pretend not to understand): You do not set out to prove; you set out to find out whether. Otherwise it is not science, but ideology.

It is a good column, and she pulls no punches. TYVM for adding the link to your Panda's Thumb post!
pandasthumb.org/archives/202...

Thanks for that! I thought the perp in the oval office was an interesting slip of the tongue.

The states do not collect taxes for the Federal government. I suppose they could refuse to forward the tax that the state itself withheld from its own employees (and maybe put it into an escrow account), but it seems to me that might be the rough equivalent of sticking your arm into a hornets' nest.