SERIOUS QUESTION: William Buckley (founder of National Review) has been quoted as saying "I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”

So, serious question: Would you rather be governed by the Biden administration or some 2,000 people randomly selected from some national telephone directory?

I know what my choice would be.

WELL, HE IS A DEMOCRAT: Charlie Crist is such a putz.

IMPRIMIS explains inflation.

PJ MEDIA'S MORNING BRIEFING is being written by Megan Fox this morning -- hilariously.

IN A TEXAS BORDER TOWN, Democrat officials are re-registering as Republicans. Here's the full article in the New York Times.

Unrelated, but my father was born in Sanderson; his father was a railroad engineer for the train line that passed through there.

GLENN REYNOLDS: How today's 'elites' manipulate control the working class.

It only works as long as the working class is unaware -- and I don't that is (or will ever be) the case again.

POWERLINE'S (a bit late) Week in Pictures, recto-cranial impaction edition. My favorite:

Now go see the rest. Oh, heck -- here's another:

Now go see the rest.

ACCORDING TO HOYT: Gone fishing. Might as well do something as panic ensues....

HERE'S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE: A student sleuth found evidence that our University practices reverse racism; here's why I advised him not to publish it.

When I was teaching, I had a similar student advisee -- academically brilliant, but socially awkward (to be considerate) -- and I still wonder if I gave him good advice.

JOHN KERRY: A climate change distraction.

It must take great skill to be this worthless.