A brief note:

Two retired lawyers in the D.C. area who I respect and consider good friends posted a photo of themselves, smiling and standing in the freezing cold at a street corner holding a “No King’s” sign. About 20 more of my friends “liked” or “loved” the post.

What earthly good is such a pointless protest? Are these lives so empty and without purpose that they couldn’t find something more productive and beneficent to do? Like..oh..anything? Make a pot-holder. Memorize “The Highwayman.” Learn chess.

Is this virtue-signaling? Is this insanity? Both of these friends could engage on Ethics Alarms, for example, and learn something. Maybe teach something, make someone smile, make a freind, have their assumptions challenged. A trained chimp or a 6-year-old could hold a “No Kings” sign.

Madness.