As of Thursday, June 4th, 2020, the number one searched term on Google is the word Bougaloo.

And to understand what this word means, you need not look in a dictionary.

For it will tell you that Bougaloo is just simply a modern dance.

But to understand why people are searching for the word Bougaloo, more than any other term,

you actually have to go to Urban Dictionary. And they spell it out very easily.

The Bougaloo Civil War, that's it. A couple of years ago, there was an article, I believe it was

in the New York Mag might have been the Atlantic where they said they interviewed several global

security experts. They gave a relatively high probabilities chance of a civil war happening

in this country. And you can see it right here. Civil war does not only pertain to war with

the government, but also to political sides, which brings me to the actual story for today.

Senator Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed for the New York Times,

send in the troops. The nation must restore order. The military stands ready.

And this sparked a very serious controversy. Many people in media were outraged

that the New York Times would publish an op-ed saying send in the troops, invoke the insurrection

act and have the army stop the rioting. The reason they were upset, they said that it would

harm black individuals, notably those who worked for the New York Times, which I find particularly

strange. Are the people who worked for the New York Times going out and rioting? They might be,

I doubt it, but we did see that story about the two lawyers who went out and tried, I guess,

throwing Molotovs and got arrested. So maybe there really are people who worked for the New York

Times who were engaging in civil unrest or insurrection, but I doubt it. What's strange to me in all

this controversy is that Tom Cotton is talking about the widespread looting, the A political,

the conflict, the crisis that has nothing to do with the protests. In fact, in the article,

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