Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

A Low-Hanging-Fruit Salad Brief comments about a selection of current events and topics of immediate importance, in no particular order... Immigration I HAVE ALWAYS APPRECIATED George Will's dry wit and general erudition, and at one time often agreed with his opinions. Sadly, though, four years ago Will fell prey to Trump Derangement Syndrome in a big way and has now become a reactionary Biden apologist (probably helped down that path by the fact that for the last seven years he's been answering to Jeff Bezos). Continued... January 6 at the Capitol I AM SICK TO DEATH of seeing and hearing the term "storming" in regard to the events at the Capitol during the Electoral College proceedings. Likewise "insurrection" and even "riot" (and I am especially sick of seeing and hearing these terms from what are supposed to be grown-up conservatives or even Libertarians, who I suspect are using them out of fear of seeming insufficient in their appearances of condemnation and denunciation and at risk of drawing frowns from Democrat narrative managers). Unless a video surfaces showing a mass of invaders deploying battering rams against the doors behind which cower AOC and her terrified colleagues, at the very least, or ripping art off the walls and smashing furniture and maybe even setting a fire or two, "storming", "insurrection" and "riot" are all ridiculously hyperventilated expressions. Continued... See all at https://losthorizons.com/N/132.htm#2