What do you call it when a group or crowd of people set an example by destroying something they don’t like and then coming to your door to see if you agree with them? There’s no way to know, but I’d still love to know what percentage of “Black Lives Matter” signs in stores and neighborhood lawns are there as part of a protection racket. How many of these people think, “If I just put up this sign, maybe they’ll leave me alone.” It’s like putting lamb’s blood on over your door during Passover to make sure the Lord…
Share the misery or celebrate success?
I remember reading this joke in a Michael Walsh column awhile back, and I thought it made an important point worth sharing: It seems there were two subsistence farmers, Ivan and Mikhail, both equally poor. Then one day, Ivan somehow acquires a cow. His life immediately improves. Instead of the wife, the cow pulls the plow; the cow gives milk; it produces calves for meat and the market. Quickly, Ivan far outpaces Mikhail. One night, starving and miserable, Mikhail drops to his knees and prays. “Oh, God,” he implores, “Ivan and I were always equal. And now look at…