Mark

@dcwritermark.bsky.social

“Just a kid from Brooklyn”

I’ve noticed that the leftists who lazily call Whitmer a “corporate stooge” sound an awful lot like the rebels asking “What have the Romans ever done for us?” in Life of Brian.

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What if the Roman Empire had developed steam locomotives? Rome’s real superhighway was the Mediterranean, since grain from Egypt could be moved by ship at a fraction of land cost. Rail would have changed that math and probably made Alexandria–Antioch–Ephesus a rich overland corridor.

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I miss the old days, when I never had to hear anything about the World Cup. But nowadays my feeds are filled with stuff like Iceland trash talking Cape Verde every fucking day.