Earth grows hotter by nature, and colder by nurture.
Reason whispers, but influence now belongs to whoever shouts longest and loudest.
Democracy collapses not with a fight, but with a shrug and a spineless back.
If cowardice was our currency, there would be no national debt.
Washington belies the adage that old age brings wisdom.
You can’t fight today’s demons with the dulled swords of polite politics.

In Christ’s time, 30 pieces of silver, today a meme coin to buy a man’s soul.
Religion used to console the broken—now it emboldens and supports the breakers.
Our national IQ is falling faster than memberships for Kennedy Center events.
Discouraging or expelling foreign college and graduate students is akin to expelling firemen from a growing fire.
A nation in the pall of dementia—its people adrift, having forgotten their roots, their history, their purpose, and their friends.
This is spot on…and it is so sad and disheartening to me that we have come to this. It breaks my heart. Also makes me glad I’m old.
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