“When you come to a fork in the road, take it,” he said, giving directions to his house. Either path, it turned out, got you there.
.. “Nobody goes there anymore,” he said of a popular restaurant. “It’s too crowded.”
.. A beautifully written story for a storied man. “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” could be his epitaph. I’d add: now it is but it isn’t. Rest in peace Mr. Berra.
Ted Nelson & Al Gore: Clown Meme
Like Al Gore, I seem to have become some sort of clown meme to the underinformed.
America Is Great
The most dangerous point in the arc of a nation’s power is when the apogee of its greatness is passed but it is not yet resigned to decline. That’s where Trump’s America is. Which is really, really great.
The Trump Doctrine: “We Want Deal”
When he talks about Mexico “sending people that have lots of problems,” including drugs, crime, and “rapists,” he echoes Francis Walker, the administrator of the 1870 and 1880 censuses, who described new arrivals as “beaten men from beaten races, representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence.”
.. But, for the moment, he remains consistent, and faithful to the political credo of Roger Stone, the former Nixon aide who has advised Trump over the years (and who left the campaign earlier this month). Stone likes to say, “Hate is a stronger motivator than love.”