RAY@Bluesky

My relationship with Bill is a weekly swing—one week I’m cheering, the next I’m cringing.

Good behavior? No—only good connections.

The worst part of being summoned to court is the vigil—the anxious keeping of time.

You can have the title—I’ll keep the fortune.

Authoritarianism fears higher education, because true learning awakens judgment, imagination, and responsibility.

“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.” — Hannah Arendt

Bolton said he’d never choose between Harris or Trump. Yet had Harris won, his troubles might have quietly disappeared.

China isn’t just catching up anymore —it’s using America’s own tactics to race ahead.

With such poetry, Lyra, you’ve made all the gods jealous!

“Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.”
— King Lear, Act IV, Scene 6

The world seems to care less, when there’s more color involved.

He left out the color factor.

Undoing ’65 is more than legal revision; it’s a quiet turn of the clock back to ’64—remaking history in retreat.

The world loves a polished face, and many villains know this better than saints ever will.

There is no administration—more a corporate enterprise.

“An inflation pattern that has overtones of the dreaded 1970s is forming.”—CNBC

Maybe the only cure for delusion is a dose of free fall.

I turned from the morning headlines—too much praise for the undeserving. Found quiet instead in this reflection.

Grateful to Lyra for the uplift.

It’s one thing to set the trap; another to step inside. Homan took a big step inside.

Trump’s ‘peace’ deal was born of pressure, not diplomacy. Bombed and furious, Qatar pushed Trump — who pushed Bibi. Of course, now the crook will take the credit.

Classless cabinet from top to bottom.

“In a sequence of posts on X on Monday, Mr. Hegseth responded to the announcements from The Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic with the hand-wave emoji, which suggested he was saying farewell.”-NYT

Nothing says integrity like mocking journalism with an emoji.

Wars may end with signatures, but trust has no treaty.
Bibi’s stubbornness may have secured him the war—but in doing so, Israel lost a special friendship.

Each new ‘reform’ in Washington seems to start by undoing someone else’s progress.

The new authoritarian doesn’t seize the military or the courts first—he seizes the media. Once that’s done, the rest will fall in line.

“I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red.”—Annie Hall

The hat, the smile, the “la-dee-da” Thank you, Diane, for the laughter.

Global calm, domestic chaos.

When he said he’d restore order, he meant the old order.