The Colorado shooter turns out to be non-binary, using "they-them" pronouns. Isn't that a bit like if a shooting were attributed white supremacist hatred of black people, and then finding out the shooter was black? Isn't this news? 

 There is someone blowing their horn. They are picking someone up. They are sitting in their car outside the house of the person they are going to pick up and blowing their horn. I have never experienced this in Ohio. Maybe a teenager will give a quick toot, I have seen it in movies and may have experienced it in real life but cannot recall now, but it was certainly not habitual. Here, in Chicago, it is the customary method of picking someone up. It is just how one does it. It is 7:30 in the morning and it has been going on 20 minutes and it happens quite frequently. 

This is not an American custom. It is a foreign custom. Our elites who have decided that it is our duty to let all of these foreigners in don't have to live with them. The immigrants and their, at times, noxious customs, don't settle in the neighborhoods where the people who make the decisions live. They make the decision, we bear the costs. It makes me angry. And the worst thing is that if I complain about it these complaints will be met with the retort, "shut up, racist." I don't mind being called a curmudgeon or a grouchy old man. But I do not like being called a racist. 

You ask me how I can vote for Trump. It is because someone is blowing their horn at 7:30 in the morning. 

 The ten books from political science that non-political scientist should read: a personal list

Reinhard Benedict, Imaginary Communities

James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Jay, Hamilton, and Madison, The Federalist Papers

Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 1

George Washington Plunkett and William L. Roidon, Plunkett of Tammy Hall

Charles S. Murray, On Democracy

George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950 

EE Schattschneider, The Semisovereign People

 The thing about this January 6th, election deniers, controversy is that it all takes place without discussion of policy proposals. Most of the time when we have a controversy it is what to do about a problem. This is a controversy about a belief. That makes the controversy arid and problematic. 

The reals question about election integrity is what to do about it, and it is here that the arguments of the left and the democrats fall down because all that these terrible election deniers propose to do is have voting in person, with a photo id, and with a paper trail. Those may be good or bad proposals but it is hard to see how they make elections more insecure.