Opinion | Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Know Whether He’s Coming or Going

Bret: I’m fairly positive we may get the phrase out that milk is mostly nice for infants or vaccines are usually protected with out setting a precedent that the federal authorities can work with Large Tech to censor particular person speech.

Gail: After all I agree with you about freedom of expression. However within the means of defending it, it’s pure to argue about particular instances with specific particulars. We’ll pursue this once more quickly. Properly, eternally in all probability.

However let me be boring for a second and ask you about Congress. Simply obtained via that deficit disaster, and one other one can be coming across the bend this summer time. What’s your long-term recommendation? Spend much less? Tax extra? Ignore the entire thing and determine it’ll work out in some way, prefer it all the time does?

Bret: My recommendation: Speak much less, smile extra. Significantly, what we want from Congress and the president is to get via the subsequent 18 months with out one other manufactured home disaster. Between the warfare in Ukraine, Iran’s creeping nuclearization and China’s saber-rattling over Taiwan, we’ve greater than sufficient to fret about overseas.

Gail: Hmm. One author’s manufactured home disaster is perhaps one other’s affordable disagreement. And whereas Congress isn’t all the time fascinating, it’s on the prime of the critical-if-possibly-boring ladder.

Bret: Earlier than we go, Gail, I’ve to place in a phrase for Penelope Inexperienced’s humorous, fabulous obituary in The Occasions of Sue Johanson, a Canadian intercourse educator who died final month at 92. It has the only most memorable paragraph to look within the paper for at the least a month, if not a yr. I’ve to cite it in full:

Is it bizarre to place physique glitter in your boyfriend’s testicles? Is it protected to have intercourse in a sizzling tub? Might a Ziploc baggie function a condom? If condoms are left in a automobile they usually freeze, are they nonetheless good? Solutions: No. No (chlorinated water is just too harsh for genitals, significantly girls’s). Positively not. And sure, as soon as they’ve been defrosted.

I imply, after that, what else is there to say?

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