Biden’s partner at each podium should be a ballot box – a mail-in ballot drop box, to be exact – a vessel of convenience for voters, a symbol of leaders who value them.

“We don’t have a (fire) season any longer,” University of Colorado fire scientist Jennifer Balch told the Denver Post, referring to a stretch that used to end in fall with the first snows. “We are now looking at year-round fires.”

Build Back Better. It’s a great handle for bridges, viaducts and sewer lines. But, oh, my — how inadequate a name for legislation that’s more complex and nuanced, focused on survival – personal, planetary.

In biology, surface distinctions among human beings barely count. Regardless of skin color, we all share 99.9 percent of our genetic code with one another. Biologically, race is an artifice, a distinction without a distinction.

Here is why the flag of the whiny anti-masker isn’t one with 50 stars and 13 stripes. His flag has one star, and he is it.

One would think the gun sanity organization Everytown for Gun Safety, which formed after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, might be open to this idea to keep schools safe. Hardly. “The notion of a highly trained teacher armed with a gun is a myth,”

Listen, people: To be a Trump Republican today one must swear off such stuff. Instead, one must devote each waking breath to the culture war.

To think that Trump used my tax dollars during the period from election to certification to illegally extend that which 81 million voters said must end: his con-man presidency.