[beyond the sea]

Peggy Noonan is a mordant idiot, a bitter, OLD, totally irrelevant, POS hack.

LOL

There's a section in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" that I am reminded of when someone lays it out hard and direct (and right) like you just did.

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Sundance to Etta: What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you. But the minute you start to whine or make a nuisance, I don't care where we are, I'm dumping you flat.

Butch: Don't sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight.

[nopardons]

Well, I am rather blunt...LOL