Here’s what we talked about this morning:

The history of how socialism became un-American. As you may have guessed, it involves the manipulation of public opinion by moneyed interests.
Progress being made in a couple of campaigns for positions on local school and special-district boards.
This moving first-hand account of trench warfare in Ukraine. One of us said that it reminded her of The War Prayer, by Mark Twain.
The question of how we characterize the decade between 2000 and 2010. Was it the decade of disasters? The decade of peace and love? Read Noah Smith’s excellent Conceiving the 2000s and join us next week to tell us what you think.
The ongoing question of what the Tillamook School Board could possibly have been thinking when it made the most recent appointment to its Policy Committee. The Tillamook County Pioneer is trying to provide a fair and neutral venue for letters on the subject, but we struggle with the problem of listening respectfully to arguments directed at the integrity of someone who asked this simple question: “Based on the applications, what other school board would have chosen Tiffany over Romy?”