A family game we really enjoy is guessing a title of a book from an inventive description of its plot. You can ask yes/no questions to get hints.

“A gloomy curmudgeonly animal loses body parts to attract his friends’ attention.”

“A young lady has a complicated but not completely unproductive relationship with mirrors and bunnies.”

What family games do you play?

OK, so was he beaten with a hammer after the police arrived, then? This is making no sense.

I screenshotted because the headline is very likely to be disappeared soon.

I found a perfect Christmas gift for my father. It’s a beautiful new biography of Queen Elizabeth titled The Queen. He was a lifelong admirer of the British monarchy, especially of Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II. I hope the book was delivered to the big library up in the sky where he now lives.

Instead of celebrating that they didn’t lose the midterms quite that badly, Democrats – and I don’t mean the leadership but good, well-meaning folks who vote blue – need to think long and hard about what they are doing to create this environment of fear, especially among the young and the working class people.

I know it was started with the best possible intentions. But it didn’t work. Now is time to dial back. There’s something we can all do to move away from this dead end. Everybody needs to make a conscious decision to stop using words “racism, fascism, authoritarianism, -phobia” outside of scholarly research on fascist Italy, etc or clinical psychology. Stop using the words “hate and hatred.” They’ve been used more than enough. It’s time to give them a rest. Stop using the expression “harmful speech” and “hate speech.” This rhetoric isn’t helping. It’s making us all prisoners of fear.

We already have a generation of permanently scared youngsters on our hands. We have colleges where people exist in fear. Let’s just all step back and it do this any more.

At my university, 56% of administrators and 21% of staff feel free to express their opinions.

Please note that no government agency forced us into this situation. No law, no act of coercion on the part of the government caused this.