Friday’s quick hits

Do not cast your pearls before swine, lest they be trampled on. And if you stumble upon someone else’s pearls, don’t be a swine and trample on theirs. If the best you can do is say nothing, then say nothing.

I am less beholden to the GOP at this moment than ever before. I am an American and a Trumpist.

People are complex and most everyone has a hidden story. That’s why stereotypes are such cheap caricatures.

Unfortunately, we’re going to have to clear out some useless Republicans and elect a new Congress next year before the Trump agenda can really get rolling. The swamp is deep and wide and not easily moved.

Hurricane Irma will be at worst a tropical depression by the time it reaches Middle Tennessee. There will be no evacuations. Please don’t buy up all the milk and bread. And try to stay clear of #fakenews.

Congressional Republicans have the ball 1st-and-goal on the 1-yard-line. And they’re taking a knee after every snap.

The older I get, the more I realize how few are the things that require my intervention. This is actually quite liberating.

Liberals seem to confuse responsible behavior as heartless and cruel. There’s nothing generous about giving away money you have to borrow from future generations of taxpayers.

It’s astonishing the number of things that compete for one’s attention. I’ve turned off as many of life’s “notifications” as possible, and am always looking for more.

Just because I don’t get my hackles up doesn’t mean I don’t care.

“In short, the media don’t have to be convinced. They have to be outfoxed, outflanked and outperformed.” — Richard M. Nixon, January, 1989

Also this: “[T]he former POWs were anxious to tell the country how much they admired Nixon and appreciated what he had done. So much so that reporters began expressing some skepticism, even charging that the ex-POWs had been told what to say. ‘Ridiculous,’ responded a Pentagon spokesman, who added that ‘it insults the POWs’ intelligence to say that they could have been brainwashed during a 3-hour lay-over in Clark Field when the North Vietnamese couldn’t do it in seven years.’” (Excerpt from: Stephen E. Ambrose. “Nixon Volume III.”)