Much has already been said about the exhausting length and disturbing content of this week’s State of the Union speech. But I think it can all be summed up in one brief sentence from the writing of a man who, though he passed away when Donald Trump was just 16 years old, might seem to have been in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, listening to that history-making rant:

“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”

– William Faulkner, “Mosquitoes”

Eerie, isn’t it?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
2/27/26