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Red Red wine, November 9, 2022.

Introduction.

This is a time when good writers reach into their tool chest in order to trot out a phrase

like much ballahood.

The much ballahood red wave has hit the beach.

It was not a tsunami that took out the first row of condominiums, but it did take out quite

a handful of lawn chairs, coolers, and beach umbrellas.

We'll still take it.

But after we take it, we may have to adjust how we talk about it.

This was no tsunami, this was no wave, but more like a red ripple.

And in some places like Florida, it was something more like a slosh.

In the meantime, red red wine goes to my head, makes me forget.

So allow me to set out the principle first and then move on to point out some fundamental

ways in which our country is broken.

After that, what?

Put the bottle down.

The biblical balance.

What is the basic lesson, the close observers of politics need to learn?

Besides the lesson, it summons you to stop being such a close observer of politics.

You do know that this would help with that throbbing in your temples, right?

There are two such lessons, and when they are both held together, they result in wisdom.

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