(SEEN ON TV NEWS) IT'S ALL OUR FAULT: The supply chain is broken because Americans are buying too much stuff from China.

And so the obvious progressive solution is to impoverish Americans.

As you know, I've been dithering between 'insane' and 'stupid' as the proper descriptor for progressive Democrats. I think I've finally got it correct -- it's both. Progressive Democrats are insanely stupid.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The whole point of 'Build Back Better' is to recreate the serf class.

HE KNOWS WHICH ASS TO KISS -- and when. And if you believe this excuse, you're even dumber than I can imagine.....

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG is focused on racist bridges and dividing highways.

This from a former small-town mayor who couldn't even fill potholes in the streets....

I THOUGHT IT WAS READING, WRITING, AND ARITHMETIC: Loudon County's equity consultant says relationships -- not learning -- should be the focus of schools.

I have to say that's the best argument I've ever heard for disestablishing government schools. If 'relationships' are all-important what's the need for schools?

YES, LET'S GO TO WAR ... against climate change. Read the whole thing -- and wince. If you can't manage to suffer through it all, here's the gist:

[W]ith “analyses” of this quality coming out of America’s universities today, it’s no wonder that Antifa has no problem filling its ranks.

One shudders upon realizing that these maroons infest our colleges and universities.

NO, ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ DOES NOT AFFECT HUMAN HEALTH. Weather does.

Popular science has morphed into political popular science and almost no one has noticed.

LET THEM EAT CAKE: Our 'betters' (heh) on mask mandates.

More here, here, here, and here.

I'M A BIT LATE with PowerLine's Week in Pictures. There's plenty of good election-related stuff but since I have cats, this has to be my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

RANDOM THOUGHT: They [Leftists] don't care if the poor get poorer as long as the rich get poorer too.

Heard on a television newscast recently.

HOWARD STERN tees off on Aaron Rodgers.

My take: Howard Stern needs a better shade of lipstick to go with (his/her/its) hair style and earrings....

SO WHITE PARENTS AREN'T PARENTS? The Charlottesville city council responds to the Lincoln Project. They're not happy.

The gist of the whole Lincoln Project charade was to imply that white parents protesting critical race theory were fundamentally racist and shouldn't be allowed to 'dictate' school curricula.

THE SERFS ARE REVOLTING: Greetings from feudal California.

The mother of all earthquakes is coming to the west coast soon, but it won't be underground.

THE LEFT IS DESPERATE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL: CNN guest suggests it may not be 'safe' for school children to stop masking for two years.

And deranged....

WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE THERE'S NO ROOM FOR ANYTHING ELSE: A year later Donald Trump still inhabits Democrats' heads.

DATA (NOT THAT DATA) is anti-women/minorities.

The walls in the Democrats' kitchen must be inch-thick Teflon because nothing's sticking.

DASHED HOPES: The Democrats' racial reckonings.

LET'S GO, BRANDON: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stays the Biden vaccine mandate -- at Brandon's request.

MANDATES FOR THEE, NOT FOR ME: American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten insists students be fully masked while going maskless herself.

Weingarten is a Democrat activist, lawyer, lesbian with no children and no teaching experience -- and she's head of a teacher's union?

NOT JUST SCHOOLS: National snowplow driver shortage may cause winter school delays.

But wait ... haven't we been told by progressives that pickup trucks -- especially those big enough to push a snowplow -- are 'urban assault vehicles'?