Thoughts on Politics

As far as I'm concerned, the local TV affiliates should keep their politics to themselves (or to their own editorial channels) or decide to not be an affiliate.

The fact that the airlines hide this behavior behind a data broker that they own and the government works around its own restrictions by leveraging private companies is gross. There appears to be no way to opt out of this privacy-invading practice.

I highly recommend this essay from David Brooks, writing at _The Atlantic_ from a political conservative's point of view.

What an unbelievably sad story. I vacillate between sadness at the outcome and frustration at the fact that it was completely avoidable. Gift link to the article below.

I love the straight-faced, matter-of-fact tone of this article, which points out the ridiculous statements Musk made in this interview.

Play stupid games and _your children_ win stupid prizes. Keep playing, and many others will too.

Elon Musk couldn't be doing the things he's doing without Trump giving him the agency and authority, and Trump couldn't enable those things without Congress being complicit. We need to hang these actions on the people we elected. The fault belongs to Trump and to Congress.

What an embarrassment. It's going to be a long four years. Let's hope we can repair the damage when it's over.

I keep hearing that the election wasn't a landslide, because the popular vote was close. It was a landslide in the only way that matters. We have to figure out how to win the game that's actually being played, instead of consoling ourselves with results that just don't matter.