Perpetual Optimism Is Annoying. It

Obama Also Allowed Hillary Supporters To Insert An Absurd Statement Into The Platform Suggesting That Media Sexism Spurred Her Loss And That “demeaning Portrayals Of Women ... Dampen The Dreams Of Our Daughters.” ... It Would Have Been Better To Put This Language In The Platform: “a Woman Who Wildly Mismanages And Bankrupts A Quarter-of-a-billion-dollar Campaign Operation, And Then Blames Sexism In Society, Will Dampen The Dreams Of Our Daughters.”

Perpetual Optimism Is Annoying. It Is A Sign That You Are Not Paying Attention.

Everybody Is Continuously Connected To Everybody Else On Twitter, On Facebook, On Instagram, On Reddit, E-mailing, Texting, Faster And Faster, With The Flood Of Information Jeopardizing Meaning. Everybody's Talking At Once In A Hypnotic, Hyper Din: The Cocktail Party From Hell.

The Mayans Were Right, As It Turns Out, When They Predicted The World Would End In 2012. It Was Just A Select World: The G.o.p. Universe Of Arrogant, Uptight, Entitled, Bossy, Retrogressive White Guys. [...] Instead Of Smallpox, Plagues, Drought And Conquistadors, The Republican Decline Will Be Traced To A Stubborn Refusal To Adapt To A World Where Poor People And Sick People And Black People And Brown People And Female People And Gay People Count.

President Bush Was Once Asked Which Presidential Speech He Admired Most. He Replied That It Was The One Teddy Roosevelt Had In His Pocket That Had Helped Cushion The Blow Of A Would-be Assassin's Bullet.