Hundreds of years ago, which most will concede was a less sophisticated time, author Jonathan Swift stirred the masses with an essay entitled “A Modest Proposal.”

Swift even then had the good sense to publish this tome anonymously, unlike the current-day twits who rush to prove their idiocy with offerings on social media, then duck the blowback by attempting (too late) to delete the foolish posts.

Swift specifically wrote that starving Irish might sell their kids to rich English who could eat them, thereby giving money to the Irish and lessening their financial burden.

Swift’s intent was satire, making a ridiculous assertion to illustrate a problem, that being starving Irish.

Satire continues to be used widely today with purveyors such as The Onion enjoying both acclaim from those who get it, and ridicule from those who do not recognize satire when they read it.

In defense of the latter group, it is getting harder and harder to separate actual news from tales of ridiculous exaggeration used to make a point.

Consider the revelation today that Penn State University, apparently not satisfied to keep donating millions to victims of the school’s sexual abuse scandal, will gift head football coach James Franklin with a 10-year contract extension worth $7 million or so per year.

Franklin critics, and they are many, can be forgiven for thinking this is all just a big joke. Franklin has won exactly none of the past nine games in which his teams have played Top 10 opposition.

The combined Penn State record of last year and this is 11-9. As hot properties go, Franklin would seem to be a bowl of lukewarm mush.

But Penn State feared someone might steal this prize coach whose teams can’t win big games, or barely win any games at all as it turns out.

For the sake of comparison, Alabama coach Nick Saban, he of seven national college football championships won, makes about $8.7 million a year.

Call me crazy, but I’m thinking Franklin might be worth $2 million a year. Or maybe Saban should be getting $14 million a year based on Franklin numbers.

Even as Penn State was donating to Franklin, Clueless Joe Biden stumbled to the microphone to bumble through his teleprompter cues and eventually announce a plan to release 50 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve.

That release is presuming other countries can be convinced to lubricate the oil market with similar amounts.

In a comical moment afterward, a reporter asked Clueless Joe’s energy secretary what the daily U.S. oil consumption might be. She didn’t have the numbers at hand. Why she didn’t know offhand, considering her title, is a legitimate question.

Well, it’s easily found on the internet that the usage is about 18 million barrels a day, meaning that 50-million barrel release would make up for three whole days of oil consumption, give or take.

If you are thinking that will meaningfully lower the price of oil, you probably believe Franklin deserves $7 million a year.

And finally, likely you have noticed that Biden policies of hamstringing domestic oil production as a way to kiss up to climate change types, then begging OPEC to pump more oil to make up for it, has resulted in gasoline prices rising more than $1 a gallon domestically during the Biden reign of terror.

Despite the ridiculous announcement today of the possible SPR release, U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate closed up at $78.50 a barrel, as did international benchmark Brent, which was up to $82.31 a barrel.

Warning, this next item is not satire, but brutal fact: Investment guru Marko Kolanovic was quick to rush out today with analysis that those skyrocketing oil prices actually are cheap on a historical basis.

According to Kolanovic’s calculus, prices could rise to $300 to $500 a barrel in the not-too-distant future and merely be in line with traditional norms.

I know, I know, that sounds ridiculous – almost as ridiculous as Franklin getting a 10-year contract extension at $7 million a year.

Let us engage in a role-playing experiment today, adopting the intellectually and morally bankrupt ways of the lunatic fringe left.

Even as the body count was rising in the Wisconsin Christmas parade massacre, the cretins at CNN were running with an editorial warning that “there’s nothing more frightening today than an angry white man.”

Would it not be freeing to be able to ignore reality and push agendas with such foolish timing?

Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good harangue.

Pictured was Kyle Rittenhouse. His sin was using a gun to defend himself against those who were eager to tell all at the time that they would like to have killed him.

Social justice warriors among the LameStream media need to have their vision re-calibrated. How easy it would be to practice their particular brand of blindness to the truth.

The suspect in the Waukesha massacre sure looks to be black in his mugshots, dreadlocks and all. His weapon was an SUV, which he is charged with using to kill and injure many more than Rittenhouse took down with his AR-style weapon.

Prepare for a wave of cries to ban SUVs, them being the deadly weapons that they are. Or not.

More to the point, the Waukesha suspect was not acting in self-defense. He also, unlike Rittenhouse, is a career criminal, a fact the LameStream media will be sure to ignore.

If the political right acted like the political left, the media would be full of cries about the dangers posed by young black men, with ridiculous suggestions about how to address the festering problem. It would continue for months.

Social media would be rife with similarly vacuous commentary.

It is there now, but from the left.

In a prototypical example of the brain-dead left using social media (megaphone for morons) to comment, one simpleton identified with the Illinois Democratic Party called the Waukesha massacre “karma” for Rittenhouse’s acquittal and “probably just self defense.”

Images of this individual, who rightly could be called a true testimony to idiocy, seem to show a woman with the face that looks like the south end of a northbound mule.

Were those on the right as simplistic as the left in their commentary, there would be armchair psychoanalysis about her obviously harboring feelings of inadequacy and lashing out due to having been shortchanged on the matter of appearance.

Blanket statements would follow: “There’s nothing more dangerous these days than ugly left-wing women.”

Idiot-in-Chief Joe Biden finally got around to acknowledging the Waukesha Massacre today. Biden condemned the deed in the most general terms, but reserved specific commentary because he and his handlers still are gathering facts.

Rest assured, based on Clueless Joe’s track record on matters such as Rittenhouse, had the perpetrator been white and the implied motive fit into the Democratic playbook of ridiculous accusations, Biden would have been eager to try and convict the guy in the media.

All of a sudden, Biden is waiting for facts.

While he waits for the facts, the rest of us can wait for some indication that the crazed leftists ever will return to some semblance of emotional balance. Good luck with that.

As my late, terribly politically incorrect father would have observed, don’t hold your hand over your butt waiting for the leftists to get religion, or you might die of constipation.

Evidence continues to mount of societal breakdown, coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

For now, the left coast seems to have a headstart on widespread lawlessness. Whether you’re talking yet another riot in Portland, Oregon, to a series of incidents in and around San Francisco where upscale retail outlets were raided by thieves emboldened by the decriminalization of such heretofore anti-social behavior.

Price inflation grows with each passing day, leaving the socialist apologists who dominate the media to attempt to put a positive spin on the debacle their patron saint Clueless Joe Biden has wrought.

The left-wing geniuses at The Washington Post were out with many suggestions to reduce the cost of the traditional Thanksgiving feast, including serving a smaller bird. That should go over well with the people left to suck on the wishbone when the white meat runs out.

I’m sure White House mouthpiece DisinJenuous Psaki will take to the lectern Monday to chastise any who would whine about not being able to afford the traditional Thanksgiving feast. Aren’t they grateful for free vaccinations and all the handouts being given to illegal immigrants?

The average American family should be thankful it doesn’t live in Illinois, which reached a significant milestone in recent days. The state’s governmental pension shortfall has hit $530 billion. That’s $110,000 per Illinois household.

I’m thinking not a lot of Illinois households have a spare $110,000 to kick in to keep public pension hogs feeding at their troughs.

But Hunter Biden’s ability to monetize the family name continues, with yet another deal made with the ChiComs. I’ll bet he’s not downsizing his Thanksgiving turkey this year.

Meanwhile, as many American sheep continue to buy the COVID-19 vaccination claptrap, often-violent riots broke out all over Europe this weekend and those citizens told their governments where to shove the shots.

And, most recently, a Christmas parade in Wisconsin was marred by a lunatic driving into the crowd Sunday, killing some and injuring many.

It sickens me to think how the LameStream media will spin this, depending on the eventual identity of the driver.

We observe Thanksgiving in a few days, with little to feel grateful about as far as the state of the nation goes.

Joe Biden’s colonoscopy Friday was a failure, with doctors unable to pull the Pathetic President’s head from his nether region.

How else to explain Biden’s rush to double down on his confused, doctrinaire assessment of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial?

To recap, Rittenhouse, who somehow had been charged with multiple crimes simply for protecting himself against crazed protesters, was acquitted. It was the only reasonable result.

But it’s not reasonable when you’re Clueless Joe Biden, beholden to left-wing zealots in your party, and wholly unable to make an informed decision due to declining mental faculties.

Biden, walking in the steps of his hero Barack Hussein Obama (who once said if he had a son, that son would be a hood, or words to that effect), had rushed to judgment pre-trial, branding Rittenhouse a white supremacist and other such inflammatory terms.

A rational individual, having seen footage of Rittenhouse being shot at, assaulted with a skateboard and chased through the streets by mob members, might have backed off a tad on this assessment. A sane individual might have listened to testimony that rioters were aggressors and Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.

But it’s been quite some time since anyone could use rational, or sane to describe Joe Biden.

Biden professed to be “angry and concerned” by the Rittenhouse verdict. Translation: It doesn’t comport with the leftist view of the world, so facts be damned, the guy should have been fried!

The reality for anyone willing to check their partisanship at the door, something too many news outlets cannot manage, was that Rittenhouse was more victim in this case than criminal. If we’re going to cede the streets to rioters and pillory any who would stand up to them, this nation is on the verge of Civil War II.

If, instead, we’re going to respect the law, then Rittenhouse stands as an example of the legal system getting it right, even though it took an inexplicably long time to get there.

People who should know better spent a lot of time mis-stating this case for public consumption. I cannot confirm from personal observation, but my son noted the usual suspects were all over social media in the wake of the verdict proving again that outlets such as Facebook and Twitter are the megaphones for morons.

The less inhabitants of social media know about a topic, the louder and more strident their views. These digital fools railed about the Rittenhouse acquittal.

Threats of more violence have been made. I’m counting on Biden and his crew to give tacit approval to such lawless actions by declining to demand civil order or prosecute those who riot.

Apparently, the Rittenhouse haters were unbothered by attempts to injure him that night, or since to deny him various rights guaranteed in the Constitution – not just guaranteed to those on the fringe left looking to take down this country.

And now we await the trial aftermath, with opportunists ready to take to the streets and loot stores in the name of “justice.”

For any would-be Kyle Rittenhouses out there, stay home and don’t waste your time trying to go out and protect the rights and property of others. Wait for the rioters to reach your home, observe their forcible entry, then show them the door the hard way.

Let’s Go, Brandon!

Forgive me, I’m in the mood to rant. A lot!

I live in the Greater Johnstown Area, where for five or six years getting from Point A to Point B has involved dealing with road delays due to sewer work.

Simply put, our genius public servants ignored a sewer treatment problem until the Feds arrived with heavy-handed, shoot ’em all and let God sort them out remedies.

The Federal government is great at making wide-ranging declarations and leaving it for the local citizenry to figure out a way to pay for it all.

This has been a boon for contractors large and small. Demand has been created, whether it be working at tearing up basements inside houses, or tearing up streets to replace main lines.

The homeowners keep a lid on things because they don’t have unlimited funds. Crews don’t qualify for retirement there without ever completing the job.

But at the municipal level, there’s a whole lot of money being spent and not a whole lot of progress being made. My son’s municipality had the original contractor botch things so badly another contractor is redoing the work. I’m sure that’s not costing anything extra.

And so if I drive a mile in any direction from my house I’m treated to the repeated sight of four or five guys standing around an open hole looking into it as intently as if it were a strip show.

Rain, sleet, snow, sun, it doesn’t matter. They stand there and stare at the holes as if expecting them to magically finish the job on their own.

These hole watchers seem to be happy sorts. The other day I actually saw one guy move onto a truck, grab a rake, and laugh uproariously before putting it down.

At this rate, our national “infrastructure” bill, once it’s done donating to illegal immigrants and to various social misfit causes, might be able to get a block or two of sidewalks put in. Maybe.

The infrastructure idiocy is rampant in my hometown. Streets that were ripped up and left like the Ho Chi Minh Trail, after the B-52 bombers were through, finally have been put back into passable condition.

This is just in time for the spray-painting morons to wield their cans marking up the new pavement for fresh rounds of surgery. Incredible? Yes. True? Sadly, also yes.

Along that line of the left hand never consulting the right, the athletic field in my home school district is under some sort of major construction. The field is near a relatively new school, that had a new playground installed when it was built.

Guess what happened to that new playground? Torn town and trucked away for this latest project to unfold.

Thank you, morons. I’m sure that didn’t cost any extra money or waste any dollars for the school district whose taxpayers already shoulder the highest tax rates in the county.

Our local hodgepodge of waste and misuse of funds is indicative of a nation short on common sense and traditional values.

Clueless Joe Biden’s nominee for a top bank regulating position is a Marxist academic with a shoplifting record who is on the record wanting to bankrupt banks and energy companies in some delusional screed against our nation.

But if you criticize her, you are some kind of misogynist racist because Lefty Lucy is an Asian woman.

Are they nominating free-enterprise capitalists for positions of prominence in either the Chinese or Russian governments? I think not.

Meanwhile, we have a young man on trial in Wisconsin for doing no worse than using a gun to defend himself against people trying to kill him, as evidenced by videos and even testimony from some of the assailants. The not-guilty verdict should have been in within minutes. Instead we are days into the deliberations.

It’s clear the same brain-dead types making a career out of sewer work in my area also are staffing the criminal justice system, are running the federal and state governments, and are getting together at night for orgies of self-congratulation over their successes.

We are doomed as a nation as long as this ridiculous behavior is tolerated and I’m not optimistic anything will change.

Rant finished.

The Biden regime was out with more bad news for the citizenry Friday, a predictable bad news dump just ahead of a weekend.

The thinking of these Friday releases is that the simple sheep will have moved on to something else by next week and the negative blowback from yet more bad news will be minimal.

In case you weren’t paying attention, Pal Joey’s Gang announced that Medicare Part B premiums will rise 14.5 percent in 2022. Also going up will be Part B deductibles, as well as various Part A deductibles and copays.

It was big news a while back when it was announced that Social Security benefits would rise 5.9 percent next year as a nod to inflation. Well, a 14.5 percent increase in the cost for Part B coverage is more than two and half times that supposed inflation rate.

What happened? Rising drug costs, said a Biden mouthpiece.

Economic reality continues to intrude on the Biden Fantasy. He limits domestic production of energy, shuts down pipelines, then jawbones OPEC to produce more oil. OPEC tells Jolly Joe to go pound salt and your costs at the gasoline pump skyrocket.

Pity those who heat their homes with oil, or who were not smart enough to lock in their natural gas costs when prices are artificially low.

Consumer confidence surveys are picking up negative feedback from the masses, who find prices rising across the board and aren’t encouraged when elitist tools in the Biden regime tell them they’re just going to have to suck it up and pay the increasing costs.

Some NBC dweeb was out over the weekend noting that while people gripe and moan about rising costs, they can afford to pay more.

Sounds a lot like Marie Antoinette Pelosi doing a network piece about roughing it at home during COVID lockdowns eating $14 a pint ice cream from her $25,000 freezer.

Can these leftists morons truly be this out of touch? Why yes, they can.

Congratulations to all you smug and arrogant Biden voters who visited this idiocracy on our nation. You must be so proud!

Biden and his inept regime seem determined to plumb the depths of reason. To them up is down, left is right, black is white. Their moron minions back them up.

The economy is running on fumes, the supply chain is tied up in knots, inflation is on the verge of breaking out across the board, but the clueless one keeps raining more and more unconstitutional decrees upon the populace designed, ostensibly, to solve a COVID crisis that no longer exists, if it ever really did.

Things are bad. If you have been paying attention, you already knew that. Rest assured, they can and will get worse.

Let’s Go Brandon!

The Democratic Party and its lapdog media outlets such as MSNBC and CNN have become a sickening stew of outright lies and wild accusations.

Dare we dream that election results in Virginia and New Jersey indicate the electorate is – belatedly – getting wise to it all?

Let us begin with Virginia, where upstart Republican Glenn Youngkin kicked establishment Democrat Terry McAuliffe to the curb.

To the sane, Youngkin’s win was a triumph by a man who listened to concerns from parents about their children’s education. To the progressive left it was racism.

Youngkin was swept into office by white supremacists, they claim. This argues with exit polling conducted by Associated Press (not exactly a right-wing organization) that had Youngkin winning among Hispanic voters, who presumably are not white supremacists.

Quickly another exit poll was ginned up from Edison Research that showed McAuliffe winning big with Hispanics but still losing the election.

But that same Edison Research outfit reports exit polling showing more than half of voters thought parents should have “a lot” of input as to what their children are taught in school and 33 percent said “some” input.

Candidate McAuliffe pulled the trapdoor on himself when he said in a pre-election debate that parents shouldn’t be involved at all in determining what schools teach.

The tone-deaf, arrogant McAuliffe lost on this issue. If Democrats think that is racism, they ought to pitch their copies of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book and invest in some dictionaries.

But the racism argument to explain Virginia results gets even worse when you consider the incoming Lt. Governor, also a Republican, is Winsome Sears, a black woman born in Jamaica.

What made the white supremacists come out to vote for a black woman immigrant? Or maybe people just liked the message of optimism presented by this former Marine and advocate of the Second Amendment.

Above all else, Sears said cries of racism are overblown and she’s living proof of this. It’s hard to argue that. But rest assured left-wing zealots will.

As icing on the Virginia cake, Republicans appear to be about to take over the majority in the House of Delegates. Are you telling me Virginia voters are majority racist white supremacists? I doubt it.

In true blue New Jersey, the Republican came within a whisker of winning the governor’s race vs. the Democratic incumbent. And a truck driver, Ed Durr, who was fed up with Democratic control of the lives of workers such as him with their ridiculous mandates, knocked off the entrenched Senate president (another tone-deaf Democrat).

Durr is reported to have spent all of $153 on his campaign. He relied, instead, on running against Democratic arrogance – and won.

Meanwhile, at the federal level, the lies and contradictions continue to mount.

Most recently, Sleepy Joe Biden (who lived up to that moniker by napping during a climate conference speech) returned to brand as outright lies and “garbage” reports his administration will pay $450,000 a head to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT families separated by border guards DOING THEIR JOBS!!!!!!

On cue, Biden mouthpiece Karine Jean-Pierre was out today to indicate Joe was confused (again) in his comments and referred only to the $450,000 number, although Joe had said $450 “that’s not going to happen.”

When the payments do happen, and they will, be prepared for anyone criticizing the giveaways as racists and/or white supremacists. It’s all they have.

I’m just back from voting today, although I’m not sure why. Force of habit, perhaps?

Yes, the candidates mostly were for local or statewide office, so it is less likely the results will be outright fudged, as they most obviously were in the last presidential election.

Yes, it’s important as a good citizen to vote and exercise the franchise so many have fought and died to preserve.

Yes, you have no room to gripe if you can’t be bothered to take a few minutes to vote.

But, for every person who bothers to study the candidates and their positions and vote accordingly, there are at least as many – probably more – who vote based solely on party affiliation, or what freebies the candidates are promising to distribute, or how effective the often-false campaign ads have been.

Again, this is not so much the case in this election. But more often than not, it is.

What has been going on in Virginia’s governor race speaks volumes. The loudmouthed Democrat, Terry McAuliffe, a Clintonista from way back when, is looking to play the race card as his one-time healthy lead in the polls shrinks, or even inverts if you believe a Fox News poll.

It’s vintage Democratic playbook. They get Democratic operatives to pose as right-wing racists in front of a Glenn Youngkin campaign bus. Youngkin is McAuliffe’s Republican opponent.

Reliable lapdog LameStream media ran with the photo and it was a sensation on social media, AKA The Megaphone for Morons.

Only after a news cycle were there reluctant admissions that it was a staged photo by Democrats. It’s like when a hit job is bannered across the front page of a newspaper in 90-point type, but the correction is buried at the bottom of page two; a paragraph or so with maybe a 24-point headline.

Will the fake Youngkin photo and other McAuliffe distortions or outright lies work? Don’t bet against it.

It’s possible McAuliffe will win a fair election in a squeaker. It’s possible Youngkin will win in reality, but the official results will show otherwise. It’s possible enough thumbs will be pressed on the electoral scales to give McAuliffe a purported runaway victory.

Reports indicate about 1 million Virginians voted early and McAuliffe is up 300,000 among those. That’s a big deficit for Youngkin to overcome based on election-day turnout. We’ll assume for now that the early voting was all legitimate and lacking the Georgia stench.

This Virginia race is being painted as a referendum on Joe Biden, who lived up to his Sleepy Joe nickname this week by falling asleep while ostensibly listening to a speech at the global climate-fest.

The only referendum on Biden that would matter to me is a national recall vote, and that isn’t happening.

The man and woman campaigners outside my polling place concurred regarding the sad state of elections in this country, but were happy to see someone (me) operating on autopilot despite waning faith in the legitimacy of the results we have reported to us.

“Don’t give up” the woman implored.

I’m not giving up, but merely acknowledging that the system is badly broken and the solution moving forward is not likely to be found at the ballot box.

Whatever happened to traditional Halloween trick-or-treating?

By traditional, I mean kids walking to houses in their neighborhoods, getting candy and in return amusing the people handing out the treats with their costumes.

In most cases, the kids knew the adults distributing the candy, and vice-versa.

Fast-forward to 2001, earlier tonight, traditional Halloween. The wife and I went to my son’s neighborhood, about a mile and a half from our home, to make the rounds with his family, which includes two young daughters.

We still were traditional, doing a quick circuit of the neighborhood on foot and calling it quits after less than an hour because a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old tire relatively quickly.

But we were out of step, figuratively and literally. Begin with the blitzkrieg tactics employed by many. Vehicles pulled up and disgorged groups of kids, who hustled to every house with the porch light on, the universal signal in these parts that there is candy to be hand.

Sometimes the transportation waited at the dropoff point. Other times, the vehicles went up and down the streets, creating unnecessary traffic with so many young children about.

I’m relatively familiar with my son’s neighborhood and I can say with some degree of certainty that a huge number of the costumed kids (some had to be teenagers, or beyond) were from parts unknown.

The mistake made by my son’s municipality, and by mine, was to have their trick-or-treat night on an island, not coordinated to share the same date with other area trick-or-treat days, so as to discourage the people who would turn this kid’s celebration into the candy equivalent of the cheese giveaways that used to attract all the area’s loose cannons.

As a child, I can never recall trick-or-treating at a house I couldn’t easily have walked to and back from.

Were I a betting man – and I am – I’d lay good odds that most of the people who were being ferried about in vehicles had crossed several municipality borders to reach this destination tonight.

One candy-grabbing vehicle had a relatively loud exhaust. I swear, when I had gotten back home with still some time left in the two-hour trick-or-treat window, I heard the same vehicle prowling our street.

I didn’t want to look to confirm it, and be forced to contemplate what sort of person turns trick-or-treat into an exercise in greed and exploitation of the generous among the population.

I saw joy on the faces of some of the kids accepting candy tonight. I saw similar happiness on the faces of many distributing the treats.

How unfortunate that this traditional children’s rite of celebration is being corrupted by greedy adults who are doing their best to indoctrinate greed in the kids they drive from area to area trying to score more candy.

What an entertaining World Series this promises to be, beyond what figures to be a good on-field product.

The cherry on the top of this sports sundae is how the two participating teams will trigger the libtards everywhere.

Begin with Atlanta. The city lost the All-Star Game this past summer because that state’s Republicans had the temerity to try to remedy obvious electoral abuses in the past presidential election, as well as in special Senate runoff elections.

But the butt-kissers in Major League Baseball management were offended and shifted the All-Star Game to . . . Colorado. That would be to a state that, horrors, requires photo identification to vote in-person and signature verification for mail-in voting.

My God, that’s suppressing the vote, right?

And Denver’s population is 9 percent black. Atlanta is 41 percent black.

Way to strike a blow for something, Major League Baseball.

But the MLB virtue signalers could not take away the World Series, so the lefty whiners will have to live with it.

And there is more. How about that offensive Atlanta nickname, the Braves? Unlike the gutless management of the Washington Redskins, who bowed to political correctness and became the Washington Football Team, Atlanta is sticking with Braves.

Come to think of it, that Washington cave-in was a win for Native Americans, since the team formerly known as the Redskins is pathetic, an on-field embarrassment to the game of football.

Back to the Braves, they have that nickname the Woke crowd can’t stand. Even worse, Braves fans do the tomahawk chop, chanting and motioning with their hands every time the Braves get something going offensively.

Gag me with a calumet (that’s a peace pipe – to spare you needing to look up the word).

The presence of the Houston Astros in this Series is amusing on several levels.

Considering their willingness to bastardize the voting process, I’m confident libtards aren’t upset that the Astros were found to have improved their chances by electronically stealing catchers’ pitch signals in the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

Not as appealing to the libtard crowd is having a team from Red State Texas playing for another title.

Monday, a day before the World Series began, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed into law a bill requiring transgender high school athletes to compete on teams consistent with the sex listed on their birth certificates.

Imagine the nerve of the guy, standing up for Title IX by banning guys from poaching success vs. girls on female sports teams.

Game 1 of the World Series in Houston came off with mask-less spectators, and no gratuitous political displays by the athletes or anthem singer.

Maybe when things swing to Atlanta down the line the politically correct crowd will muster a protest over the Braves nickname or some such quixotic quest.

No matter which team prevails in this World Series, we on the political right already are winners. And the pathetic inhabitants of the far left can spend the next week and change sobbing and sucking their thumbs in frustration.