Congratulations to Clarence Thomas, who this week will become the second-longest-serving Supreme Court Justice in history. Longevity is its own reward, but more important is that the 77-year-old Justice has served long enough to see his originalist view of the Constitution remake American law.
Some here will love this, and others absolutely will not. Andy Kessler in today’s WSJ lauding Tim Cook and globalization.
It was the perfect hourly salary arbitrage. Apple paid assemblers in China $2 an hour (today it’s $6) to sell phones to Americans making $37 an hour. Could the company have made iPhones in union-dominated Detroit? Sure, but they might have cost $3,000, and we’d be using Huawei phones instead. Another reason tariffs are dumb.
Editorial in Slate (remember them?) about how Cole Allen’s manifesto is about as radical as the author’s mom’s Facebook page.
And from that he concludes… Trump is to blame. Of course. Trump did that to everyone, is his thesis, drove normal people to become potential killers by his mean tweets. It’s always been surprising to me that people can say something and seemingly not hear what they themselves are saying.
This leaves me with only one logical conclusion about the state of the union. Amid the decline of the American quality of life—to say nothing of the phantasmal, reality-blinkering disruptions of the modern internet, and the collective understanding that, within this political gridlock, nothing, on principle, can ever get better—I find myself wondering if people we once perceived as “normal” are, in fact, considerably more strange than they ever were before. That is the only way I can make sense of a Bluesky Lib going postal, or a podcast bro opening fire on West 54th Street. I think of the unfazed reaction the world at large had to this most recent Trump assassination attempt, how everyone quickly settled back into Wolves vs. Nuggets, or more grimly, instinctually asserted that the whole situation was a false-flag psyop. More to the point, I think about how I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a huge swath of solid-blue mainstream liberals—those same wine moms at the rally—wish that Allen had found a better vantage point to mount his rifle. This is the status quo we are left with after 10 long years of MAGA, our norms and institutions chipped down to the bone. The man in the chair has foreclosed the future itself, and millions of Americans, passively or otherwise, want him dead for it.
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Nice editorial this morning on Clarence Thomas. The guy who gets it right more often than any other.
The Triumph of Clarence Thomas
https://archive.fo/An5CM
Some here will love this, and others absolutely will not. Andy Kessler in today’s WSJ lauding Tim Cook and globalization.
We’re Going to Miss Tim Cook
https://archive.fo/At47M
Editorial in Slate (remember them?) about how Cole Allen’s manifesto is about as radical as the author’s mom’s Facebook page.
And from that he concludes… Trump is to blame. Of course. Trump did that to everyone, is his thesis, drove normal people to become potential killers by his mean tweets. It’s always been surprising to me that people can say something and seemingly not hear what they themselves are saying.