Many nations are hit by a periodic crises that tests the strength of their institutions.
Haiti is being struck by THREE crisis at once, at the same time that virtually all of their institutions have failed.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

This email came in this morning, demonstrating more eloquently than I could why I am not a voter:

TOGETHER WE CAN SAVE LOS ANGELES

The Los Angeles primary this June was a disaster for common sense. Make no bones about it. Sure, more people voted because of a date change in the election, but by and large, common sense voters stayed home.

Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s first female prime minister, and Hillary Clinton thinks that this a good thing for women.

Last I recall, the vogue solution to climate change was a carbon tax -- maybe it would be steadily rising, maybe there would be a public dividend, or something like that. And then --