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Random Note — Values, Schmalues

โ€œโ€ฆ๐‰๐จ๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌโ€ฆโ€™ Notice how โ€œcore valuesโ€ has become the latest set of haughty default smug and supercilious weasel words deployed in an attempt to virtue...

Random Note โ€” Ukraine

I like Paul Kellyโ€™s observations but sometimes I get the impression that the commentariat, the cognoscenti and the political class inside the beltway are to close to the action, down in the weeds. Theyโ€™re focusing on the individual pixels, not the big picture and need...

Random Note โ€” Chris Bowen, Nuclear and Perspective

In this entire nuclear debate, as it is, and Bowenโ€™s infantile insistence that to get nuclear up and running in 10 years is fanciful, he needs to be reminded that in 1962, JFK said that the United States “๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐š๐ฅ, ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ...