Bonkers!
as a new day begins
My title arrived unbidden as I awoke this morning. In attempting to keep up with the whipsaw antics of the puppet-in-chief, I really think this describes him—or the rest of us in having to deal with his chaos.
So with that as a given, I will again attempt to make it through life, one day at a time.
I must say that in my eclectic mix of reading material, I find nothing quite so offensive as the publication produced by Hillsdale College entitled “Imprimis” which I have mentioned before. The January 2026 Volume 55, Number 1, arrived the other day, and I dutifully read it as research. I was not surprised to see the headline being “Learning from Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal” but I was shocked at what I consider outright blasphemy. The article by Scott W. Johnson, a fellow of the Claremont Institute, ends with assigning blame to three politicians: Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Elliot, and U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, all of whom he trashes, to put it bluntly. The crowning irony, however, is that he ends by asserting that this debacle “indicates a leadership class that has either forgotten or no longer takes seriously the idea that public office is a public trust” OMG!
So with that religious note, I will end my Sunday brief because quite frankly I want to not become so jaded that I give up completely. May I just say it takes one to know one. Onwards and upwards . . .
RESIST ALWAYS
TTFN
Kudos for your bravery and research into the minds of the opposition, willingly subscribing to a Hillsdale College publication. For years I received in the mail publications, donation requests, and various propaganda addressed to the former owner of the house I now live in from Hillsdale, The Heritage Foundation, The Federalist Society, and the like. I rarely opened it. I simply wrote on the outside of the envelope “return hate mail to sender” and handed it back to our USPS delivery person, who being the postal worker union chief for our local post office gladly accepted it with a smile, fully understanding.
I got sucked into the discussion... did a quick check on "Hillsdale College"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College#Policies_and_funding
and their predictable neo-kristian fringe associations... e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration
which apparently is associated with (if I'm reading & interpreting correctly) vaccine denial and of course Reaganism ("privatize!") etc etc. I didn't see anything about evolution denial... I am reminded however of a statement by the late Jerry Falwell, in regard to science teaching at his private slave college for nitwits, that "we just teach them the science they need to know." meaning, rather obviously, creationism. I could go on, but you get the idea... not just NUTZ but greeeeedy! and dishonest... JTC
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