There Was Something Distinctive About the U.S. Capitol Tourists, But It’s Hard To Nail Down
My experience with tourism is limited to visits to 21 other countries, mostly on business, lots of family vacations through the years, and meeting the considerable flood of tourists who come here (Santa Barbara County), largely to taste wine.
Yet I’d bet that even those that are 10 times more traveled than I am, or those who live in destination meccas like Paris or Venice, have never seen tourists who build gallows and tie nooses to them. It’s peculiar behavior, as I think anyone would have to admit.
The same body (The U.S. Congress) who conducted eight separate investigations into Benghazi over the course of 15 months, including 11 hours of testimony from the person most directly involved (and found no evidence of wrongdoing) are now refusing to permit a single congressional investigation into the riots of January 6th.
I have to admit that the photo to the left is both funny and illustrative of a certain way of looking at COVID restrictions.
I’ve heard lots of people say that political correctness is equivalent to shutting down free speech, but I’ve never understood it.
It’s mid-May and 
Today, the Wordsmith word of the day is
I side with those who say we’re experiencing the end-game of unbridled capitalism. Since the late 19th Century, we’ve seen a dwindling spiral of greed, moral decay, and poor education. Each re-enforces the other two.
I guess I can see that 14% of these morons are women, but I’d love to get a read on the 6% (of the 600 = 36) of the insurrectionists who aren’t white.
I try not to be pedantic, but “worthless” is very clearly the wrong word here. Both these people are extremely powerful forces that are aimed at everything people of decency and compassion abhor:
As mentioned previously, in order to survive in today’s GOP, congresspeople now need bat**** crazy stories to promulgate to their supporters. Those without a single senseless narrative to spread are susceptible to being called RINOs, and hunted down by Republican lunatics.
