Sunday Reads

One of I am sure thousands of pounds of oppo research that the GOP would use to destroy ratfucker Bernie Sanders and ruin the Democratic Party for years to come:

#BernieSanders lavishes praise on Communist Russia, preferring the Soviet Union to the American way of life#NevadaCaucus pic.twitter.com/1YdMFtQuzI

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) February 15, 2020

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Good riddance to the nuclear family, which was the "norm" during its heyday from 1945 to around 1975.

This is the Republican David Brooks of the NYT column.  He sees the handwriting on the wall, but unlike him I fully believe marriage itself is on the way out.  It isn't just birthrates plummeting, but marriage rates are also falling, and the economy has little to do with it.  The trend has been in the works for decades.

Also, if you are single you are more likely to live in poverty in the United States. This is especially true for women.  Only a fool would think it is "cheaper" to be single than to live with somebody else or be married, not with the housing costs so insane these days.  Other countries with a much better safety net might have different results from more people living alone, but this isn't true here.

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The Democratic Party is going to be marginalized like the UK's Labour Party if it continues to peddle the trans bullshit line at the expense of women.  The original link is behind a paywall.
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Obituary:  Writer A.E. Hotchner, only 102, has died. He was a friend to people like Ernest Hemingway.

Hotchner, known to friends as “Ed” or “Hotch”, was an impish St Louis native who read, wrote and hustled himself out of poverty and published more than a dozen books, befriend countless celebrities and see his play The White House performed at the real White House for President Bill Clinton.

He was a natural fit for Elaine’s, the former Manhattan nightspot for the famous and the near-famous, and contributed the text for Everyone Comes to Elaine’s, an illustrated history. Hotchner’s other works included the novel The Man Who Lived at the Ritz, bestselling biographies of Doris Day and Sophia Loren, and a musical, Let ’Em Rot! co-written with Cy Coleman.

In his 90s, he completed an upbeat book of essays on ageing, OJ in the Morning, G&T at Night. When he was 100, he wrote the detective novel The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom. At 101, he adapted Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea for the stage.

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