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Second-graders carry around a Flat Stanley. Rick Reilly carries around a Flat Donald.
After getting “Don-bombed” by a friend who sneakily put a cardboard cutout of the former president in Rick’s kitchen, Rick decided to make use of the 2-D Don and pose him for photos around his town of Sedona, Ariz. — and post up in the background to watch what passersby would do.
“I wanted to see how people respond to Trump when no one’s around,” Rick writes. “Because I don’t think this election is about Joe Biden vs. Trump. I think it’s about Trump and only Trump, the most space-swallowing, ulcer-inducing, fire-starting colossus this country has ever seen.”
Rick and Donald’s journey takes them to the grocery store, to a McDonald’s and to a gorgeous scenic outlook that visitors mostly complain Trump is ruining. And after all the silliness reveals something very serious, the adventure ends in a fitting location you’ll have to discover for yourself.
Chaser: Many fans of the real-life Trump cite his ability to “fix” the messed-up economy. But what if, as Megan McArdle posits, the economy is already as normal as it’s going to get?
From former journalist Stephanie Shapiro’s op-ed proposing a solution to this problem so outré, so transgressive that you may wish to first sit down: Allow yourself to read … during the daytime.
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Heavens! Reading is the province of the quarter-hour before bed! The day is for industriousness, not such idle indulgences!
As Shapiro writes, “Just the thought of settling onto the sofa in daylight hours, especially on weekdays, smacks of laziness and stirs up guilt.”
It really oughtn’t. Shapiro writes that we need to rewire our brains to prize reflection as much as production and give in to the daytime chapter or four. But that’s easier said than done — especially when Shapiro has groceries to go pick........