As is typical at this time of year both the news and opinion pieces are even duller and more repetitive than usual. When most of the local news broadcasts are devoted to the weather in Milwaukee you know things are slow.
Maybe I’ll just start writing posts without a connecting lead-in from the news or opinion sections.
It’s not just that so many people are taking their final summer vacations before school starts—seemingly the entire continent of Europe will be on vacation until next week.
There’s a certain amount of commentary on President Trump’s announced confab with Russian President Putin, much of it focused on how much the author of any given piece dislikes Trump. The one thing I hear no one talking about is a plan for Ukraine to prevail in its war with Russia without demanding that we provide arms we don’t have to Ukraine, Ukraine field troops they don’t have, or we begin World War III.
